[patch] Cleanup: don't call free(NULL) unnecessarily

Andreas Schwab schwab@linux-m68k.org
Tue Mar 5 22:23:00 GMT 2013


Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov@google.com> writes:

> Glibc free(NULL) also works in signal context, but end user could supply
> his own malloc/free, which may not.

I don't understand the reference to signal context.  free (0) is trivial
to implement, independent of context.

Andreas.

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