Nick Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If p is a null pointer then "free (p)" may (and should!) crash. You
are incorrect here.
sigh You are completely wrong, see KR's treatment of ANSI C
Sorry, my bad. I just checked the ISO standard and indeed, free(NULL)
is safe.
I guess that makes me
I just had a look at the code of some of the plug-ins and I noticed that
there is often lot's of room for improvement:
1) some constructions are plain clumsy, for example somewhere I saw:
for (k = 0; k bytes; k++) destline++;
instead of simply:
destline += bytes;
2) a lot
On Thursday, 31 Aug 2000, Maurits Rijk wrote:
3) sometimes it's just lack of C knowledge:
if (p)
free(p);
can be simply replaced by just:
free(p);
I would not assume that it is safe to free() a NULL pointer in _all_
vendor's libc implementations. That's why
Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
snip
3) sometimes it's just lack of C knowledge:
if (p)
free(p);
can be simply replaced by just:
free(p);
If p is a null pointer then "free (p)" may (and should!) crash. You
are incorrect here.
Hm. According to most (all?)
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 03:48:37PM -0400, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
Maurits Rijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[ ... ]
3) sometimes it's just lack of C knowledge:
if (p)
free(p);
can be simply replaced by just:
free(p);
If p is a null pointer then "free
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 09:22:56PM +0200, Mail Delivery System
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
if (p)
free(p);
I would not assume that it is safe to free() a NULL pointer in _all_
True. OTOH, this has been an internationally accepted standard since 11
years. The question is
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 03:48:37PM -0400, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
If p is a null pointer then "free (p)" may (and should!) crash. You
are incorrect here.
sigh You are completely wrong, see KR's treatment of ANSI C
Standard Library, Section B6
void free(void *p)
free deallocates the
Maurits Rijk wrote:
I just had a look at the code of some of the plug-ins and I noticed that
there is often lot's of room for improvement:
Yep.
snipped...
So my question: is it worth the effort to carefully go through all the
code (not only plug-ins) and clean things up?
Worth relates to
