At 16:00 14/5/2001, Andrei Zmievski wrote:
>It doesn't seem that efree() is equivalent to free() as far operating on
>NULL pointers. If ptr == NULL, free(ptr) is a no-op, but efree() will
>probably barf on it.. Can we make them equivalent?
We could, but PHP is currently written in a way that already takes this
assumption. I think that efree() crashing on NULL pointers actually helps
weed out bugs (bugs that could go unnoticed because they'd have no symptoms
if it silently ignores NULLs).
Zeev
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