From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Daniel Berlin <dberlin@redhat.com>
To: "John R. Moore" <jmoore@cygnus.com>
Cc: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@cygnus.com>, <gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: Re: xfree() -- set ptr to nil (fwd)
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 15:46:00 -0000
Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0102121846090.13160-100000@www.cgsoftware.com>
References: <Pine.GSO.4.31.0102121527310.16672-100000@cse.cygnus.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-02/msg00182.html

On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, John R. Moore wrote:

>
> Yes, I've usually seen this as a macro
>
> #define XFREE(ptr) do \
> { \
>  if (ptr) \
>   { \
>     free (ptr); \
>     ptr = NULL; \
>   } \
> } while (0)
>
> Ok, then, do we want to replace xfree() with something like XFREE() ?

No, we try to get *rid* of macros, not add them.
--Dan