[PATCH 2/6] xserver: Possible memory leaks, stricter option checks, UnInit (NewInputDeviceRequest)
Magnus Vigerlöf
Magnus.Vigerlof at home.se
Thu Mar 29 17:10:24 PDT 2007
On Thursday 29 March 2007 04:40, Eric Anholt wrote:
[...]
> > I guess xfree can't handle freeing already NULL pointers? If so it
> > could cleanup error paths like this a little. Looks good though.
>
> The first thing Xfree (what xfree() is) does is check if the pointer is
> null and return if so.
You're right. Xfree (and free as well) does seem to handle this. However many
places this check is made in the code anyway, and there's a comment
complaining about this 0-pointer check in Xfree as well..
Where do we want to have this check?
Thanks!
Magnus V
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