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davidshepherd7 on Jan 6, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Deconstructing K&R C (2010)

Can I ask why? Is it bad style? (I'm fairly new to C)

thedufer on Jan 14, 2015 [–]

I'm late to the party here, but `free` is a no-op on a null pointer. So checking for null is just duplicating the first thing `free` does.

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