[cfe-dev] Confused by analysis

Ted Kremenek kremenek at apple.com
Wed Feb 25 09:22:31 PST 2009


On Feb 25, 2009, at 9:20 AM, Sebastian Redl wrote:

> I'm pretty sure the analyzer works under the assumption that null
> pointer dereferences are unrecoverable.

That's correct.  It's an excellent way to prune paths.  We also try  
avoiding the cascading of "hard errors"; e.g. dereferencing garbage  
values, but halting the simulation of a path.



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