I thought I remembered something which tried to poke the pointer first to make it crash if it was NULL, since freeing of a NULL pointer was considered a bug.
On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Emil Velikov <[email protected]> wrote: > On 21 May 2015 at 17:21, Jasper St. Pierre <[email protected]> wrote: >> XFree crashes when passed NULL. >> > I've never tried it personally, but it seems that XFree() is a simple > wrapper around free(), which should work just fine. [1] [2] > On the other hand $ man 3 XFree clearly states that "NULL pointer > cannot be passed to this function" :-\ > > -Emil > > [1] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libX11/tree/src/XlibInt.c#n1546 > [2] > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libX11/tree/include/X11/Xlibint.h#n332 -- Jasper _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
