Tom Tromey wrote:
"Michael" == Michael Snyder <msny...@vmware.com> writes:
Michael> Are you sure? There is a path to "goto unknown" from before the
Michael> call to the alloc function. It might actually be null. Some
Michael> versions of 'free' don't like that.
This isn't an issue with free any more. Jim Meyering did some research
into it a while ago and fixed a number of popular free software projects
to remove the useless test. Here's a page with some interesting data:
http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-patches/2006-October/031544.html
Tom
Thanks for the info.
Checking in without the null pointer test.
How come 'xfree' in gdb/utils.c still checks for null?
