Coverity doing scans of Wine codebase!

Tomas Carnecky tom at dbservice.com
Fri Apr 7 01:53:22 CDT 2006


Mike Hearn wrote:
> 
> * Another (missing NULL ptr check in LoadTypeLibEx) is right, but, I don't
>   think we want to add lots of missing NULL arg checks in the public API 
>   implementations. An application will never pass NULL to this function 
>   directly as otherwise it'd not work at all, so, a crash with a NULL arg
>   here probably is revealing some other bug.
> 
>   I'd rather it crashed cleanly in a debuggable way than silently return
>   error code and continue, in other words ...
> 

Is there a way to tell the code checker to skip the NULL check? Maybe
there are flags like '__user' in the kernel source -- '__notnull'.

tom



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