[Python-Dev] remaining issues from Klocwork static analysis (original) (raw)

Neal Norwitz nnorwitz at gmail.com
Wed Jul 26 06:49:56 CEST 2006


On 7/25/06, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:

Martin v. Löwis wrote: > Neal Norwitz wrote: >> # 74 Object/funcobject.c:143 Suspicious deref of ptr before NULL check > > Not quite sure what it is complaining about, but > > else if (PyTupleCheck(closure)) { > PyXINCREF(closure); > } > > looks indeed suspicious: Why do we check for NULL (XINCREF) when > we know closure can't be NULL (TupleCheck). Drop the X, and see > if the warning goes away

In comparison, the PyFunctionSetDefaults function does check for NULL, and raises an error in this case. However, since it is a C API function only, passing NULL is an error anyway.

Heh, that was me that added it 10 days ago. :-) Might as well do the same here.

n



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