On 2/17/11 3:52 PM, Guy Harris wrote:
>
> On Feb 17, 2011, at 3:36 PM, Stephen Fisher wrote:
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>> Now that we're doing static analysis compilation with both Microsoft
>> Visual C++ and clang, I see a lot of effort going into working around
>> shortcomings in the Microsoft static analysis.
>
> The only real shortcomings I see here are the mishandling of pointer checks in short-circuit Boolean operations and, if it's not just a consequence of the previous bug, the warnings generated by code in Microsoft headers.
I disabled warning C6011 (dereferencing NULL pointer) for now under the
assumption that Clang will give us more usable output without missing
NPE instances that Visual C++ would catch. Interestingly enough, that's
the warning shown in the example at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/zyhb0b82.aspx
Maybe that's supposed to be a hint.
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