[vlc-devel] [PATCH 00/12] Make clean-up functions behave like free

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le 2016-03-14 12:08, Filip Roséen a écrit :
> The patches in this patch-batch allows for (the affected) clean-up
> functions to
> safely be called with a pointer-to-NULL, effectivelly removing 
> one-statement
> if-branches to conditionally invoke such function.

For pure memory objects, it's debatable whether NULL should be allowed. 
But for more complex ones, please do not do this. This had lead to a lot 
of sloppy and buggy code in the past. Nack.
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Rémi Denis-Courmont
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