POSIX says free(NULL) is valid and no action.
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/free.html
--joel
On Sun, Jan 12, 2025, 12:46 AM Hal Murray via devel <devel@ntpsec.org>
wrote:
>
> The Linux man page says
> If ptr is NULL, no operation is performed.
>
> I'd expect a wrapper if there really was a problem.
>
> This code is in ntpd/ntp_config.c
> if (NULL == s) { /* free() hates NULL */
> s = estrdup("");
> }
>
> Any reason not to nuke that chunk of code?
>
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