Re: [PATCH] [DISCUSS] Make the variable NULL after freeing it.

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Jan 1 2007 22:40, Ingo Oeser wrote:
>On Monday, 1. January 2007 17:25, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> > Then this works, because the side effect (+20) is evaluated only once. 
>> 
>> It's not a side effect, it's a non-lvalue, and you can't take the address
>> of a non-lvalue.
>
>Just verified this. So If we cannot make it work in all cases, it will
>cause more problems then it will solve.
>
>So we are left with a function, which will 
>a) only be used by janitors to provide "kfree(x); x = NULL;" 
>    with an macro KFREE(x) in all the simple cases.

Just checking, where has it been decided that we actually are going to have
kfree_nullify() or whatever the end result happens to be called?


Thanks,
	-`J'
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