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The LDRA tool suite V 7.6.0 is able to detect violations of this recommendationrule.
Coverity Prevent
The Coverity Prevent CHECKED_RETURN, NULL_RETURNS, and REVERSE_INULL checkers can all find violations of this rule. The CHECKED_RETURN finds instances where a pointer is checked against NULL and then later dereferenced. The NULL_RETURNS checker identifies functions that can return a null pointer but are not checked. The REVERSE_INULL identifies code that dereferences a pointer and then checks the pointer against NULL. Coverity Prevent cannot discover all violations of this rule, so further verification is necessary.
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