xazax.hun added inline comments.

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Comment at: clang/lib/StaticAnalyzer/Checkers/NullPtrInterferenceChecker.cpp:166
+/// child is a sink node.
+static bool unconditionallyLeadsHere(const ExplodedNode *N) {
+  size_t NonSinkNodeCount = llvm::count_if(
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xazax.hun wrote:
> Consider the following code snippet:
> ```
> void f(int *p, bool b)
> {
>   if (b) {
>     *p = 4;
>   }
>   if (p) {
>    ...
>   }
> }
> ```
> 
> I suspect that we would get a warning for the code above. I think warning on 
> the code above might be reasonable (the values of `b` and `p` might be 
> correlated but in some cases the analyzer has no way to know this, probably 
> some assertions could make the code clearer in that case).
> 
> My problem is with the wording of the error message.
> The warning `Pointer is unconditionally non-null here` on the null check is 
> not true for the code above.
Also, if the check would warn for the code snippet above, the note "suggest 
moving the condition here" would also be incorrect.


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