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

[Stephen Ecob <silicon.on.inspiration@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 3:06 PM, timecop <timecop@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 5. retain the MYFREE() macro as its pointer clearing side effect is required
>> 8. Instead of simply retaining MYFREE(p) (point 5), we could replace
>> each use of it with an explicit:
>>  free(p);
>>  p = NULL;
>
> Is this "MY" prefix actually in the code?

Sure is :)

> Most sane places call the kind of free your'e talking about here call
> this macro SAFE_FREE() or SAFE_RELEASE() or something. it does
> something along the lines of
>
> if (arg) { free(arg); arg = null; }

Actually, in PCB the nearest equivalent to that is called "SaveFree"


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