On Wed, 22 Apr 2009, Rainer Gerhards wrote: > Hi all, > > as Luis Fernando pointed out in a mail, free(NULL) is defined to be valid in > C. So far, I still guarded this sequence as follows: > > if(p != NULL) > free(p); > > Because I had "a bad feeling" about portability. I begin to think that this > may be overly conservative. If it is actually not needed, code cleanup may be > useful (it is always a bad idea to do things more complex than necessary...). > > Comments on the issue would be appreciated.
if the standard says it's safe, I would count on it being safe. the only question is which standard introduced this safety. if that standard has just been released I would carefully read the notes on it, but in this case I believe that it's been in the standards for a couple of decades. David Lang _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com
