Re: [Libreoffice] [PUSHED, partial] Remove NULL checks from delete

Kohei Yoshida <kohei.yoshida -AT- suse.com>
Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:22:19 -0500

On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 21:05 -0500, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:

Setting a pointer to NULL after deleting the contents of the pointer is 
safe so that if you go to delete it again it is not a problem.


Safe if the variable that holds the pointer is likely to be accessed
again.  If not, it's pointless to set the pointer value to NULL after
delete.

Kohei

-- 
Kohei Yoshida, LibreOffice hacker, Calc

Context

[Libreoffice] Remove NULL checks from delete · Thomas Arnhold
- Re: [Libreoffice] Remove NULL checks from delete · Stephan Bergmann
  - Re: [Libreoffice] Remove NULL checks from delete · Thomas Arnhold
- [Libreoffice] [PUSHED, partial] Remove NULL checks from delete · Caolán McNamara
  - Re: [Libreoffice] [PUSHED, partial] Remove NULL checks from delete · Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
    - Re: [Libreoffice] [PUSHED, partial] Remove NULL checks from delete · Caolán McNamara
      - Re: [Libreoffice] [PUSHED, partial] Remove NULL checks from delete · Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
        
        Re: [Libreoffice] [PUSHED, partial] Remove NULL checks from delete · Kohei Yoshida
        
        Re: [Libreoffice] [PUSHED, partial] Remove NULL checks from delete · Michael Meeks
        
        Re: [Libreoffice] [PUSHED, partial] Remove NULL checks from delete · Ivan Timofeev
    - Re: [Libreoffice] [PUSHED, partial] Remove NULL checks from delete · Stephan Bergmann
      - Re: [Libreoffice] [PUSHED, partial] Remove NULL checks from delete · Bjoern Michaelsen
        
        Re: [Libreoffice] [PUSHED, partial] Remove NULL checks from delete · Michael Meeks

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