Re: Do not misuse Coverity please

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Jean Delvare wrote:

    v = p->field;
    if (!p) return;

can be seen as equivalent to

    if (!p) return;
    v = p->field;

Heck, no.

You're missing the side-effect of a null pointer dereference crash (for p->field) (even though v is unused before the return). The optimizer is not allowed to make exceptions go away as a result of the hoisting.

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