[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] qt-faststart: Remove unnecessary checks before calling free

[Måns Rullgård]

Alexander Strange <astrange at ithinksw.com> writes:

> On May 1, 2010, at 7:07 AM, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>
>> Martin Storsj? <martin at martin.st> writes:
>> 
>>> On Fri, 30 Apr 2010, Frank Barchard wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Baptiste Coudurier <
>>>> baptiste.coudurier at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On 04/30/2010 03:39 AM, Martin Storsj? wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> $subj
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>> Well I'd be ok, but I thought there were some systems that would
>>>>> not handle free(NULL) out there.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Agreed.
>>> 
>>> Hmm, ok. Out of curiosity, what systems do we support where free(NULL) 
>>> isn't ok?
>> 
>> None.  I have never seen such a system.  They are a myth perpetrated
>> by people who like justifying extraneous if statements.
>
> C99 requires free(NULL) to work.

Knowing that, I assumed we were talking about not-quite-C99 systems,
of which there are many, yet even amongst these I have not seen one
where free(NULL) does not work.

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M?ns Rullg?rd
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