This warning, IIUC, means that the compiler doesn't like it when it
sees a NULL check _after_ we've already dereferenced the
variable. In such cases, it considers itself free to eliminate the
NULL check.
There are a couple of tricky cases:
One was the case related to the fact that tor_addr_to_in6() can
return NULL if it gets a non-AF_INET6 address. The fix was to
create a variant which asserts on the address type, and never
returns NULL.
When we made assertions not get compiled in for the coverage case, we
missed one case where, for our tests, we really DO want to have an
assertion fail: the backtrace test.
Bugfix on 1228dd293b60a8eaab03472fa29428c5e2752c44; bug not in any
released tor
(And replay them once we know our first real logs.)
This is an implementation for issue 6938. It solves the problem of
early log mesages not getting sent to log files, but not the issue of
early log messages not getting sent to controllers.
