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From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering•net>
To: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail•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 22:22:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878wursag2.fsf@rho.meyering.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080820194002.GC16626@blimp.local> (Alex Riesen's message of "Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:40:02 +0200")

Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail•com> wrote:
> 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).

Right.  This was discussed at length back in February:

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/74187

  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-20 20:24 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
2008-08-20 20:22   ` Jim Meyering [this message]
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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