Re: cppcheck sept 18 redux

[Ben Klein]

2009/9/22 Vitaliy Margolen :
> Mike Kaplinskiy wrote:
> > It actually does not dereference anything. Try passing null into the
> > function - it will work just fine. This is a special case because the
> > array isn't dynamically allocated but is part of the struct, which
> > means that dmW->dmFormName == (dmW+__offset of dmFormName) and not
> > *(dmW+__offset of dmFormName). You can try writing a test program
> > yourself - it will run just fine.
>
> It does dereference the pointer. Here is your simple test. Compile it and
> run it. See what happens.
>
> #include <stdio.h>
>
> typedef struct _s_test
> {
>    void *pointer;

No. Array, not pointer. E.g.:
    int array[1];
> }  s_test;