On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 10:50 AM Peter Smith <smithpb2...@gmail.com> wrote: > The real problem isn't the Assert. It's all those other usages of ent > disobeying the API rule: "(NB: in the case of the REMOVE action, the > result is a dangling pointer that shouldn't be dereferenced!)"
I suppose the HASH_REMOVE case could clobber the object with 0x7f if CLOBBER_FREED_MEMORY is defined (typically assertion builds), or alternatively return some other non-NULL but poisoned pointer, so that problems of this ilk blow up in early testing.
