From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
To: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Cc: git list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] * remote.c (valid_fetch_refspec): remove useless if-before-free test
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:40:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080820194002.GC16626@blimp.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k5ecx2pl.fsf@rho.meyering.net>
Jim Meyering, Tue, Aug 19, 2008 20:46:30 +0200:
> We removed a handful of these useless if-before-free tests
> several months ago. This change removes a new one that snuck back in.
Something used to crash in free when passed NULL. It's one of the
reasons why some cross-platform projects have xfree which does the
check (sometimes depending on platform). Admittedly, it is a long time
since I saw such a platform (some old SunOS it was, I believe).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-20 19:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-19 18:46 [PATCH] * remote.c (valid_fetch_refspec): remove useless if-before-free test Jim Meyering
2008-08-20 19:40 ` Alex Riesen [this message]
2008-08-20 20:22 ` Jim Meyering
2008-08-20 23:38 ` Brandon Casey
2008-08-21 0:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-21 0:33 ` Brandon Casey
2008-08-21 2:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-22 0:16 ` [PATCH] remote.c: add a function for deleting a refspec array and use it (twice) Brandon Casey
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