On 3/4/23, Janne Blomqvist via Gcc-patches wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 11:31 PM Bernhard Reutner-Fischer via Fortran
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> Mere cosmetics.
>>
>> - if (foo != NULL)
>> free (foo);
>>
>> With the caveat that coccinelle ruins replacement whitespace or i'm
>> uneducated enough to be unable to _not_ run the diff through
>> sed -e 's/^+\([[:space:]]*\)free(/+\1free (/'
>> at least. If anybody knows how to improve replacement whitespace,
>> i'd be interrested but didn't look nor ask. ISTM that leading
>> whitespace is somewhat ruined, too, so beware (8 spaces versus tab as
>> far as i have spot-checked).
>>
>> Would touch
>> gcc/ada/rtinit.c |3 +--
>> intl/bindtextdom.c |3 +--
>> intl/loadmsgcat.c|6 ++
>> intl/localcharset.c |3 +--
>> libbacktrace/xztest.c|9 +++--
>> libbacktrace/zstdtest.c |9 +++--
>> libbacktrace/ztest.c |9 +++--
>> libgfortran/caf/single.c |6 ++
>> libgfortran/io/async.c |6 ++
>> libgfortran/io/format.c |3 +--
>> libgfortran/io/transfer.c|6 ++
>> libgfortran/io/unix.c|3 +--
>> libgo/runtime/go-setenv.c|6 ++
>> libgo/runtime/go-unsetenv.c |3 +--
>> libgomp/target.c |3 +--
>> libiberty/concat.c |3 +--
>> zlib/contrib/minizip/unzip.c |2 +-
>> zlib/contrib/minizip/zip.c |2 +-
>> zlib/examples/enough.c |6 ++
>> zlib/examples/gun.c |2 +-
>> zlib/examples/gzjoin.c |3 +--
>> zlib/examples/gzlog.c|6 ++
>>
>> coccinelle script and invocation inline.
>> Would need to be split for the respective maintainers and run through
>> mklog with subject changelog and should of course be compiled and
>> tested before that.
>>
>> Remarks:
>> 1) We should do this in if-conversion (?) on our own.
>>I suppose. Independently of -fdelete-null-pointer-checks
>> 2) Maybe not silently, but raise language awareness nowadays.
>>By now it's been a long time since this was first mandated.
>> 3) fallout from looking at something completely different
>> 4) i most likely will not remember to split it apart and send proper
>>patches, tested patches, in stage 1 to maintainers proper, so if
>>anyone feels like pursuing this, be my guest. I thought i'd just
>>mention it.
>>
>> cheers,
>
> Back in 2011 Jim Meyering applied a patch doing this, see
> https://gcc.gnu.org/legacy-ml/gcc-patches/2011-03/msg00403.html , and
> the gcc/README.Portability snippet added then which is still there.
>
> Per analysis done then, it seems SunOS 4 was the last system where
> free() of a NULL pointer didn't behave per the spec.
>
> Also in Jim's patch intl/ and zlib/ directories were not touched as
> those are imported from other upstreams.
>
Speaking of which, this reminded me that I opened bug 80528 to catch
code like this as a compiler warning:
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=80528
> --
> Janne Blomqvist
>