On 4 March 2011 14:50, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think that free(NULL) works on some platforms but not all. I don't
> see what advantage we'd get out of making pfree(NULL) silently work,
> and there's a clear disadvantage: it would remove a useful sanity
> check.
I don't feel particularly strongly about what pfree() should do one
way or the other, but that isn't so; free(NULL) works on all
platforms, and is required to by the standard.
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Regards,
Peter Geoghegan