On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, Bakul Shah wrote:
The *exception* is where a function is explicitly prepared to handle NULLs. One must read its man page carefully and if it doesn't say anything about how NULLs in place of ptrs are handled, one must not pass in NULLs!
While I recognize there are some useful consumer simplicity benefits to accepting NULL as an argument to free(3), it's always made me a bit uneasy for this reason.
Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
