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Null pointers, one month laterNull pointers, one month laterPosted Aug 18, 2009 16:11 UTC (Tue) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)In reply to: Null pointers, one month later by christian.convey Parent article: Null pointers, one month later No, not really. When Coverity reports that a deference of a pointer precedes, rather than follows, a test to see if that pointer is null, this doesn't tell you whether or not it is possible for a real null pointer to reach that point. It's possible that the compare against null is redundant. On the other hand, it does give a code auditor, or a black hat, a starting point to look for an exploitable problem.
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