[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: [PATCH] esd: support non-default tcp port

[Joerg Sonnenberger]

On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 11:51:14PM +0200, Németh Márton wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In this patch the AO_ESD_FREE_BUFFER was removed. I am using now the code:
> 
> 	if (server) free(server);
> 
> but in the "ISO/IEC 9899 - Programming languages - C", Chapter 7.20.3.2: 
> "The free function", one can read the following
> (The document is available from: 
> http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1124.pdf ) :
> 
> > 	void free(void *ptr);
> >
> > The free function causes the space pointed to by ptr to be
> > deallocated, that is, made available for further allocation.
> > If ptr is a null pointer, no action occurs.
> 
> This means, that
> 	free(server);
> maybe enough, and we do not have to test against NULL.
> 
> Is it working so in the practice, too?

Yes, any platform which broke that is not worth thinking about.

Joerg