Bug 253647 - Remove useless checkType method, which confuses ARC and serves no purpose
Summary: Remove useless checkType method, which confuses ARC and serves no purpose
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: WebKit
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Web Template Framework (show other bugs)
Version: WebKit Nightly Build
Hardware: Unspecified Unspecified
: P2 Normal
Assignee: Nobody
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Keywords: InRadar
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Reported: 2023-03-09 07:24 PST by Seija K.
Modified: 2023-03-16 08:25 PDT (History)
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Description Seija K. 2023-03-09 07:24:55 PST 
Whatever checkType was supposed to do, all it did was return m_ptr, which is useless, and the only other constexpr that uses it was RetainPtr. This also confuses ARC, which could not follow the logic for some reason.
Comment 1 Seija K. 2023-03-10 08:35:15 PST 
Pull request: https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/11297
Comment 2 Radar WebKit Bug Importer 2023-03-16 08:25:16 PDT 
<rdar://problem/106808845>