Re: [PATCH] fixup! bisect--helper: `bisect_next_check` & bisect_voc shell function in C

[Junio C Hamano]

René Scharfe <l....@web.de> writes:

> Initializing to NULL is still the correct thing to do, of course --
> together with removing the conditionals (or at least the negations).

So, let's give Pranit a concrete "here is what we want to see
squashed in", while you guys discuss peculiarity with various
platforms and their system headers, which admittedly is a more
interesting tangent ;-)

There are early returns with "goto finish" even before _syn
variables are first assigned to, so they would need to be
initialized to NULL.  The other two get their initial values
right at the beginning, so they are OK.

 builtin/bisect--helper.c | 14 +++++---------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/builtin/bisect--helper.c b/builtin/bisect--helper.c
index 8cd6527bd1..6949e8e5ca 100644
--- a/builtin/bisect--helper.c
+++ b/builtin/bisect--helper.c
@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ static int bisect_next_check(const struct bisect_terms 
*terms,
        int missing_good = 1, missing_bad = 1, retval = 0;
        char *bad_ref = xstrfmt("refs/bisect/%s", terms->term_bad);
        char *good_glob = xstrfmt("%s-*", terms->term_good);
-       char *bad_syn, *good_syn;
+       char *bad_syn = NULL, *good_syn = NULL;
 
        if (ref_exists(bad_ref))
                missing_bad = 0;
@@ -341,14 +341,10 @@ static int bisect_next_check(const struct bisect_terms 
*terms,
        }
        goto finish;
 finish:
-       if (!bad_ref)
-               free(bad_ref);
-       if (!good_glob)
-               free(good_glob);
-       if (!bad_syn)
-               free(bad_syn);
-       if (!good_syn)
-               free(good_syn);
+       free(bad_ref);
+       free(good_glob);
+       free(bad_syn);
+       free(good_syn);
        return retval;
 }