On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Stephen Wolfe wrote:
>since everyone explained why it wouldn't work, but didn't provide a
>solution, here's one..just make a macro like:
>
>#define FREE(var) do { \
> free(var); \
> var = NULL; \
> } while (0)
>
>and replace all free() calls with FREE()..
Won't work for his purpose, for free_char() to NULL all pointers to the
character. That will work for references to that variable later in the
function though. (I do the same thing in my buffer patch.)
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