Just a minor new twist on free()

[Martin Weitzel]

In article <280 at audfax.audiofax.com> arnold at audiofax.com (Arnold Robbins) writes:
:In article <117 at nazgul.UUCP> bright at nazgul.UUCP (Walter Bright) writes:
:>I'd prefer to use, on non-conforming implementations of free():
:>
:>    #if NONCONFORMINGFREE
:>    #define free(p)	((p) && free(p))
:>    #endif
:
:Note that this requires an ANSI compliant cpp or C compiler.  The original
:discussion was about using an ANSI compiler with non-ansi libraries, so that's
:fine, but if you try this macro on a pre-ansi cpp it'll recurse forever...

And NEVER use this macro with code that contains something like `free(*ptr++)'.

The latter construct is not unlikely, if there are arrays of pointers and
the space each pointer points to is dynamically allocated ...
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Martin Weitzel, email: martin at mwtech.UUCP, voice: 49-(0)6151-6 56 83