nullPointerRedundantCheck with new(std::nothrow)

[Igor Loboda]

Hi,

Is this a false positive or I'm doing something wrong?

#include <new>

int main(int, char**)
{
  auto* pNumber = new (std::nothrow) int;

  if (nullptr == pNumber)
  {
    return 1;
  }

  delete pNumber;
  pNumber = nullptr;

  return 0;
}

Cppcheck produces

cppcheck_nothrow.cpp:5: warning (nullPointerRedundantCheck): Either the condition 'nullptr==pNumber' is redundant or there is possible null pointer dereference: new(std::nothrow)int.

Cppcheck 1.90 dev

Thank you,
Igor

[versat]

I do not see anything wrong here.
Looks like a false positive. I will create a ticket for this issue.

[versat]

Thanks for the report, i have now created a ticket: https://trac.cppcheck.net/ticket/9414

[Igor Loboda]

Great, thanks