Can gcc accurately catch useless conditionals?

Question

Please examine the following code:

if (foo->bar == NULL);
   foo->bar = strdup(\"Unknown\");

I spent the last part of three hours hun

Answer 1

In addition to the above, if you find yourself getting frustrated hunting for a bug using valgrind or a similar execution profiler, you should perhaps consider using a static analysis tool, such as lint. Personally, I use PC-LINT, which catches all sorts of these types of bugs.