Re: PIKEVAR object foo;

[Marcus Comstedt (ACROSS) (Hail Ilpalazzo!) @ Pike (-) developers forum]

Huh?  It helps by not forcing you to do the NULL-test yourself, since
do_free_object() does it for you.  That is the only difference between
free_object() and do_free_object().  (That, and the fact that
free_object causes wanton inlining...)