Re: core segfaults (Yahoo?)
Philip S Tellis <[email protected]> Fri, 12 Mar 2004 11:22:28 +0530 (IST)
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.everybuddy.devel |
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Sometime on Mar 11, A. Craig West assembled some asciibets to say:
> > > + free(plugin->info);
> > > + free(plugin->errormsg);
> > ...but then, if there's an error, we create the plugin with NULL info
> > and errormsg, and then free them straight away. Huh?
>
> If they are NULL, free does nothing, so we don't lose much. I added
I think free crashes if you free(NULL);
I generally have this:
#define FREE(x) while(x) {free(x);x=NULL;}
Use the while instead of an if, because the if could cause problems if
nested:
if(foo) FREE(x);
else bar(foo);
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