[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython: no one passes NULL here (or should anyway)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Mon Jul 4 05:44:59 CEST 2011


On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> wrote:
> 2011/7/3 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com>:
>> May need to replace that with an assert(f != NULL) to keep static
>> analysers happy.
>
> Surely static analyzers don't assume every argument passed in is NULL?

I didn't check - was this change in a static function? For those, I
think they can figure it out. For functions exposed to the linker, I
think they demand an explicit check for a non-NULL pointer (which may
be in the form of an assertion).

Cheers,
Nick.

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