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konkers/mmrtabot: announce.go; 25 LoC

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Found a possible issue in [konkers/mmrtabot](https://www.github.com/konkers/mmrtabot) at [announce.go](https://github.com/konkers/mmrtabot/blob/f92c584bd8f6c3b0701e2f85129c4c762ec1dc65/announce.go#L39-L63)

Below is the message reported by the analyzer for this snippet of code. Beware that the analyzer only reports the first
issue it finds, so please do not limit your consideration to the contents of the below message.

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[Click here to see the code in its original context.](https://github.com/konkers/mmrtabot/blob/f92c584bd8f6c3b0701e2f85129c4c762ec1dc65/announce.go#L39-L63)

Click here to show the 25 line(s) of Go which triggered the analyzer.

```go
for _, config := range configs {
if config.Enabled && t.After(config.NextMessage) {
if !fetchedBacklog {
var err error
msgs, err = m.backlogMessage()
if err != nil {
log.Printf("can't get backlog message: %v\n", err)
return
}
fetchedBacklog = true
}
if msgs != nil {
for _, msg := range msgs {
m.bot.Session.ChannelMessageSend(config.ChannelID, msg)
}
} else {
c, err := m.bot.Session.Channel(config.ChannelID)
if err == nil {
log.Printf("No runs to announce on %s", c.Name)
}
}
config.NextMessage = config.NextMessage.Add(config.Period)
m.announceBucket().Save(&config)
}
}

```

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```
No path was found through the callgraph that could lead to a function which writes a pointer argument.

No path was found through the callgraph that could lead to a function which passes a pointer to third-party code.

root signature {Save 1} was not found in the callgraph; reference was passed directly to third-party code
```

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commit ID: f92c584bd8f6c3b0701e2f85129c4c762ec1dc65

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