Re: gEDA-user: Small patch to aid use of lib dmalloc

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 10:04 +1100, Stephen Ecob wrote:

> Dropping the (a) ? (a) : 1 foolishness would be cleaner, but could
> expose latent bugs in the 71 callers of the mymem allocators.
> I'm happy to proceed either way.  What is your preference ?

Let me push a big patch nuking the My* allocation functions, that would
make me feel much happier.

There is of course the risk that it exposes a latent bug, but I'm
prepared to take that on my head.

The current BSD man pages suggest realloc and free should work with a
NULL pointer, and I'm pretty sure we have cases where we might call
free (NULL); directly elsewhere.


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