xserver: Cleaning up memory allocation functions and macros
Alan Coopersmith
alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Mon Apr 30 13:18:47 PDT 2007
Egbert Eich wrote:
> > - free() can take NULL as argument, so it's not needed to test for NULL
> > before calling it.
>
> Maybe not on all implementations? If we use a wrapper or macro this
> can be handled there. The default wrapper doesn't need to address this.
Digging out my ancient copy of the Annotated ANSI C Standard (C89), it requires
free(NULL) to be safe - "If ptr is a null pointer, no action occurs."
Requiring ANSI/ISO C89 as a minimum standard was announced in one of the old
X11R6.* releases from the original Consortium over a decade ago, so I think
it's safe to assume today.
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