Re: PATCH/RFA free(NULL) bomb in printcmd.c

[Michael Meissner <meissner at cygnus dot com>]

On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 07:45:28AM -0400, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > Then again, i dmallocified GDB about a week and a half ago (which was
> > quite a chore, involving dmallocifying libiberty, etc. I got literally
> > every call), and i stopped fixing null pointer frees after about 35th one.
> > So he's really going to be fighting an uphill battle.
> 
> Do we really need to fight that battle, though?
>
> IIRC, GDB now assumes ISO C, right?  And the C89 standard clearly says
> that "free(NULL);" should be a no-op.

Yes, however there will always exist buggy systems and potentially pre-C89
systems (like SunOS).

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