Re: [Bug] hook: -Wanalyzer-deref-before-check warning in run_hooks_opt

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Ben Knoble <ben.knoble@gmail.com>

Date

Jan 9, 2026, 16:02 UTC

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> Le 9 janv. 2026 à 06:31, Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> a écrit :

[snip]

> And we'd reliably
> segfault anyway if we dereference the pointer, even though we would not
> get a clean error message. Not sure whether that really is worth the
> hassle though.

I think you’re probably right in practice, but doesn’t the standard just say dereferencing a NULL pointer is undefined behavior? Just wondering for my own curiosity :)