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Date:	Fri, 17 Mar 2017 09:30:50 +0100
From:	Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: free() and implicit conversion to a function pointer
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On Mar 17 00:49, Hans-Bernhard Br=C3=B6ker wrote:
> Am 16.03.2017 um 22:46 schrieb L A Walsh:
> > Going by subj and talk below, this is a bit confusing...
> >=20
> > But it looks like you are testing 'free' for a value?
>=20
> Not really.  The idea is to test free for _exixtence_.  Which only makes
> sense in case of weak symbol support getting involved.  In other situatio=
ns,
> there could not possibly be a need for a run-time if() test, because sure=
ly
> the code could know at build time whether free() exists or not.
>=20
> > Isn't standard 'free' declared to take 1 arg and
> > return void?
>=20
> Yes.  But since the code in question doesn't actually _call_ free, that's
> both irrelevant.
>=20
> > If you aren't talking standard 'free()', then
> > nevermind...
>=20
> We are talking standard free.  More to the point, we're discussing newlib,
> the package that actually implements free() for cygwin.
>=20
> > > The only code that might actually be a slight bit better than the giv=
en
> > >=20
> > >     if (! free)
> > >=20
> > > would be
> > >=20
> > >     if (0 !=3D free)
> > >=20
> > > The function designator `free' auto-decays into a function pointer,
> > > which is compared to a null pointer constant: 0.  The ! operator does
> > > that same thing implicitly, but is fully equivalent to it.
> > ---
> > Free autodecays to a function pointer?
>=20
> In the use case at hand: yes, it does.
>=20
> > In what language?
>=20
> Standard C.

Wasn't that supposed to go to the newlib list where this has been
discussed originally?


Corinna

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