On Aug 16, 2013, at 12:19 PM, Jeffrey Johnson wrote:
>
> The reason for assigning to an otherwise unsigned pointer
-----------------------------------------------------------^^^^^^^^ unused of
course
> is to ensure 2 things:
> 1) the value is often preserved on stack for gdb analysis
> 2) setting the pointer ensures that _SOME_ sane value (usually NULL
> with _free)
> is always set.
>
> I'd rather see an immediate easy to fix segfault than an access to free'd or
> uninitialized
> memory that may take months to be discovered when code gets rearranged.
>
