[webkit-dev] Eliminate potential null pointer dereference?

[Rachel Blum]

> If we had a static analyzer that ran automatically as part of the WebKit
> development process, and a shared goal to get its complaints down to 0,
> then it might be reasonable to skip creating tests for issues that it
> diagnoses. But that doesn't seem to be the situation here.
>

If we ran a static analyzer as part of the process with the goal of having
cleaner code, we could have demonstrably avoided at least one bug with a
big enough impact to avoid a hot patch.

Mind, I'm not advocating doing that. I'm aware that false positives and a
lot of "noise" bugs make this a very difficult goal to achieve. What we
currently do strikes me as the better approach - we run the analyzer, and
people who actually care about that kind of stuff triage and fix the
remaining actual issues. (And believe me, we triage out quite a bit :)

Rachel
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