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Re: [Help-gsl] [PATCH] BUG FIX: allow NULL pointers in gsl_matrix_free,
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Brian Gough |
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Re: [Help-gsl] [PATCH] BUG FIX: allow NULL pointers in gsl_matrix_free, gsl_rng_free, gsl_vector_free |
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Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:24:20 +0000 |
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At Thu, 8 Jan 2009 22:39:14 -0500 (EST),
Leo Razoumov wrote:
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> Long standing C-language idiom allows one to pass NULL pointer
> as an argument to various "free" functions (see "man free").
> Unfortunately, GSL functions gsl_matrix_free, gsl_rng_free,
> gsl_vector_free (and possibly several more) do not follow this
> convention and will crash the program if called with NULL pointer.
> This simple patch fixes the problem.
Thanks, I've logged this for the next release.
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?25319
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