Jim Meyering <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > It's a definite loss of portability if you can find a reasonable porting > target for which free(NULL) fails. But even if you do, the fix is > not to reject the clean-up, but to amend it with a wrapper function. > That encapsulates the work-around in one place rather than polluting > all of those files. As we already have unchecked free(ptr) in our code _anyway_, there _technically_ is no reason to reject the clean-up patch. We just need to find a quiescent time to do so so that actively cooking patches in people's trees (and topics in 'next') won't get needless conflicts. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
