LL078
Possible nil dereference
Object Pascal — Delphi & Free Pascal
Warning
Reliability
Chaining member access on nil-returning functions causes access violations
chaining member access on nil-returning functions causes access violations.
Why this severity
chaining member access on nil-returning functions causes access violations.
Known false positives
functions guaranteed non-nil by documented contracts.
Remediation example
Comp := FindComponent('Edit1');
if Assigned(Comp) then
TEdit(Comp).Text := 'Hello';