SEI CERT C Coding Standard

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int *p1, *p2;
p1 = foo();; 
int *p2 = NULL;;
bar(); /* Removable if bar() does not produce any side-effects */
if (baz()) {
   return p1;
}
else {
    p2 = p1;
}
return p2;

Risk Assessment

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The Coverity Prevent UNUSED_VALUE checker finds variables that are assigned pointer values returned from a function call but never used.. Coverity Prevent cannot discover all violations of this rule so further verification is necessary.

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