alt Hacker NewsOk, side topic… but that little bastard cheerfully told me out of no where that I have a mall of without a null check AND a free inside a conditional that might not get called.
It didn’t give me a line number or file. I had to go investigate. Finally found what it was talking about.
It was wrong. It took me about 20 minutes start to finish.
Turned it off and will not be turning it back on.
I thought it just emitted tongue-in-cheek comments, not serious analysis. And I use the past tense because I had it enable explicitly and a few days ago it disappeared by itself, didn't touch anything.