On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 04:44:28PM +0300, Zeev Suraski wrote:
> At 16:00 14/5/2001, Andrei Zmievski wrote:
> >It doesn't seem that efree() is equivalent to free() as far operating on
> >NULL pointers. If ptr == NULL, free(ptr) is a no-op, but efree() will
> >probably barf on it.. Can we make them equivalent?
>
> We could, but PHP is currently written in a way that already takes this
> assumption. I think that efree() crashing on NULL pointers actually helps
> weed out bugs (bugs that could go unnoticed because they'd have no symptoms
> if it silently ignores NULLs).
i'd like to second zeev here.
tc
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