On 11/07/2025 10:57 pm, Baesken, Matthias wrote:
Hi, when playing around with the GCC static analyzer ( https://
developers.redhat.com/articles/2022/04/12/state-static-analysis-gcc-12-
compiler <https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2022/04/12/state-
static-analysis-gcc-12-compiler> ) I noticed
a lot of complaints about missing NULL checks of malloc/calloc
return values in the code base.
In hotspot codebase ??
While we check these return values for NULL at a lot of places in the
codebase, it is not done always.
Should we do it always (except 3^rd party code probably where we do not
want to have large diffs to upstream) ?
Or is it considered not important enough to do it always?
Yes we should be checking for null returns.
Why did you raise this on build-dev??
David
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Best regards, Matthias
