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generic exception false positive #3224

Open armijnhemel opened 1 year ago

armijnhemel commented 1 year ago

Description

arch/mips/kernel/genex.S

there is a false positive:

"matched_text": " * Be careful when changing this, it has to be at most 256 (as a special\n * exception) bytes to fit into space reserved for the exception handler."

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armijnhemel commented 1 year ago

genex.zip test file

jalajk24 commented 1 year ago

Can I work on this issue? I am new to open source and interested to work on it

AyanSinhaMahapatra commented 1 year ago

@jalajk24 can you run a scan on the genex.zip above from scancode-toolkit v32.0.0rc1 and report if this is still present?

Can I work on this issue?

you don't need to ask to work on something, just ask questions if you have any/let us know what you're thinking to solve this.