Add assertions to cover cases where the Coverity scanner thinks we

could are deferencing a NULL pointer, but we think it missed something
it should have been capable of figuring out.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@27867

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/hv.c b/hv.c
index cb36c2f517..d912ccd6bc 100644
--- a/hv.c
+++ b/hv.c
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ S_new_he(pTHX)
     if (!*root)
 	S_more_he(aTHX);
     he = *root;
+    assert(he);
     *root = HeNEXT(he);
     UNLOCK_SV_MUTEX;
     return he;