From c3ae028a411bce1c35b7bed484eaf7f676818aea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Daniel=20Marjam=C3=A4ki?= <daniel.marjamaki@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2019 17:08:28 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fixed #8617 (False positive: uninitdata for memory allocated
 and initialized in function called new (C code))

---
 lib/checkuninitvar.cpp | 2 +-
 test/testuninitvar.cpp | 6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/checkuninitvar.cpp b/lib/checkuninitvar.cpp
index 91e7ef56a..774a81b5d 100644
--- a/lib/checkuninitvar.cpp
+++ b/lib/checkuninitvar.cpp
@@ -720,7 +720,7 @@ bool CheckUninitVar::checkScopeForVariable(const Token *tok, const Variable& var
                     continue;
                 }
             }
-            if (var.isPointer() && (var.typeStartToken()->isStandardType() || var.typeStartToken()->isEnumType() || (var.type() && var.type()->needInitialization == Type::NeedInitialization::True)) && Token::simpleMatch(tok->next(), "= new")) {
+            if (mTokenizer->isCPP() && var.isPointer() && (var.typeStartToken()->isStandardType() || var.typeStartToken()->isEnumType() || (var.type() && var.type()->needInitialization == Type::NeedInitialization::True)) && Token::simpleMatch(tok->next(), "= new")) {
                 *alloc = CTOR_CALL;
 
                 // type has constructor(s)
diff --git a/test/testuninitvar.cpp b/test/testuninitvar.cpp
index 7cae853c7..b074400f6 100644
--- a/test/testuninitvar.cpp
+++ b/test/testuninitvar.cpp
@@ -1719,6 +1719,12 @@ private:
                        "}");
         ASSERT_EQUALS("", errout.str());
 
+        // new in C code does not allocate..
+        checkUninitVar("int main() {\n"
+                       "    char * pBuf = new(10);\n"
+                       "    a = *pBuf;\n"
+                       "}", "test.c");
+        ASSERT_EQUALS("", errout.str());
     }
 
     // class / struct..