Re: emacs' turn: remove useless if-before-free tests

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Sounds like a good cleanup.  Feel free to install it unless there's
>> a strong objection.

> One possible concern is that it will lose programmer's explicit
> intention that "this variable may contain either NULL or a return
> value of xmalloc" in contrast to "this variable always contain a
> return value of xmalloc".

I can't imagine this would be a problem: if the intention matters, the
`if' will cover more than just the call to `free'.


        Stefan