Remove unnecessary null pointer checks (ASWF issue #257) #2046
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Fix remove unnecessary set local variable to null before it immediately goes out of scope. N
Fix remove unnecessary null pointer checks, issue #257.
There only appeared to be one obvious case left.
Code search process:
... then look for if statements, in C-like code, conditioned on the same variable, and no other obvious purpose that required the if statement.
See:
#257
Note: one of the two commits doesn't technically match the paradigm raised in the issue, but setting a pointer variable to nullptr immediately before it goes out of scope is unnecessary.