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Fun with NULL pointers, part 1Fun with NULL pointers, part 1Posted Jul 21, 2009 11:48 UTC (Tue) by dunlapg (subscriber, #57764)Parent article: Fun with NULL pointers, part 1
Who on earth implemented the gcc "optimization"? Check-for-null-after-use is almost always a bug, isn't it? It should be throwing a warning out, not optimizing the null check away.
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Fun with NULL pointers, part 1 Posted Jul 21, 2009 12:01 UTC (Tue) by johill (subscriber, #25196) [Link]
I'd think very often it's not. Imagine the NULL pointer check was inserted by a macro or an inlined function, into a function that's known to be called with a non-NULL argument, say because that argument is on the stack.
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