CVS update: samba4/source/torture

Ronan Waide waider at waider.ie
Wed Feb 4 16:33:41 GMT 2004


On February 4, seitz at metadata-systems.com said:
> Ronan Waide wrote:
> > Because while free(NULL) is a no-op per the specs, there are libc's
> > that will fall over when you try to do it, perhaps?
> 
> Thank you for the explanation.  I didn't realize there were C Libraries in 
> production use that broke such a basic Standard C requirement.

Oh, I'm not saying I know for certain that there are. I'm just taking
a defensive coding viewpoint. I do that a lot.

Cheers,
Waider.
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