On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 8:08 AM, Marios Vodas <mvodas@gmail.com> wrote:
> C doesn't break on free(NULL) so why is pfree developed to break on NULL?
> Is there any way in PostgreSQL to overcome this so that it won't break,
> apart from checking if the pointer NULL?
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.
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