fixup try if an assert makes it happierbagder/potentially-uninitialized

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/tool_operate.c b/src/tool_operate.c
index 71166fa9d..e680746b9 100644
--- a/src/tool_operate.c
+++ b/src/tool_operate.c
@@ -887,6 +887,7 @@ static CURLcode single_transfer(struct GlobalConfig *global,
             fclose(etag_save->stream);
           break;
         }
+        DEBUGASSERT(per); /* to show the compiler per can't be NULL here */
         per->etag_save = etag_first; /* copy the whole struct */
         if(state->uploadfile) {
           per->uploadfile = strdup(state->uploadfile);