Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Style question: Should one check for NULL pointers? | Date | Sat, 12 Jul 2003 14:40:20 -0400 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> said:
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> But if you look very far through the kernel sources you will see many > occurrences of code similar to this: > > static void release(struct xxx *ptr) > { > if (!ptr) > return; > ... > > I can't see any reason for keeping something like that.
Just like free(3) -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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