Re: [webkit-dev] Eliminate potential null pointer dereference?

2012-04-20 Thread 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

Re: [webkit-dev] Eliminate potential null pointer dereference?

2012-04-20 Thread Rachel Blum
I completely agree with Maciej here that if this is a reachable code, then the patch author should put a reasonable effort into creating a test case. And most importantly, these changes are clearly not code cleanup. I'm disagreeing here. (as far as NULL checks go). Unless there's a

Re: [webkit-dev] Eliminate potential null pointer dereference?

2012-04-20 Thread Rachel Blum
I completely agree with Maciej here that if this is a reachable code, then the patch author should put a reasonable effort into creating a test case. And most importantly, these changes are clearly not code cleanup. I'm disagreeing here. (as far as NULL checks go). Unless there's a

Re: [webkit-dev] Eliminate potential null pointer dereference?

2012-04-20 Thread Rachel Blum
If this issue was spotted by a static analyzer, it would be good to mention that in the ChangeLog too. We (the static analysis loons ;) usually try to do that. (The log will contain CID= to identify the Coverity ID, and most of the time a [Coverity] tag). The bug that David mentioned

[webkit-dev] Support for multiple favicons?

2011-06-30 Thread Rachel Blum
Hi there! I'm currently working on Chromium's new tab page, which amongst other things requires page favicons in different sizes than 16x16. And while the WhatWG spechttp://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/links.html#rel-iconsupports multiple link rel=icon... elements, webkit