NULL ptr dereferences found with Calysto static checker

Michael Stefaniuc mstefani at redhat.com
Thu Jun 21 10:12:25 CDT 2007


Dan Kegel wrote:
> On 6/20/07, Paul Vriens <paul.vriens.wine at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Marcus also mentions a second site for Wine : 
>> http://scan2.coverity.com:7479/
>> instead of http://scan.coverity.com:7479/. The result are till the end 
>> of May,
> 
> That's recent enough to be able to compare with
> Calypso, though.  It will be interesting to see how the
> two checkers do at finding NULL dereferences.
The problem with NULL pointer dereferences is that those may be valid. 
If a function crashes in Windows on a NULL pointer dereference Wine 
should/has do the same.


bye
	michael
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