ignore contents of elements of "bad" pointer vectors

plugins/devel/check-structures-sanity.cpp

@@ -676,6 +676,12 @@ void Checker::check_vector(const ToCheck & item, type_identity *item_identity, b
         FAIL("vector capacity is non-integer (" << (ucapacity / item_size) << " items plus " << (ucapacity % item_size) << " bytes)");
     }
 
+    if (item.path.back() == ".bad" && pointer)
+    {
+        // check pointers but don't check contents
+        item_identity = nullptr;
+    }
+
     if (local_ok && check_access(item, reinterpret_cast<void *>(vector.start), item.identity, length) && item_identity)
     {
         auto ienum = static_cast<enum_identity *>(static_cast<container_identity *>(item.identity)->getIndexEnumType());