On Sunday, 3 November 2013 at 16:01:44 UTC, jerro wrote:
Now we can't have an A as a member of X? (it would free a null pointer)Actually, there is nothing wrong with calling free on a null pointer.From the C 89 standard:The free function causes the space pointed to by ptr to be deallocated, that is, made available for further allocation. If ptr is a null pointer, no action occurs.
Oops, right, not the best example. But you get the motivating idea :-)
