Fredrik Lundh wrote:
>
> Vladimir Marangozov wrote:
> > PyMem_XDEL is very rare in the distribution...
>
> "if (p) free(p)" is quite common, though.
>
> > Okay, so you can use PyMem_DEL directly.
>
> which means that PyMem_DEL works just
> fine for NULL pointers on almost all plat-
> forms, while PyMem_XDEL works on all
> platforms, but is slower if the pointer is
> usually not NULL.
>
> seems a bit messy to me...
>
> > If your point is to remove it, or to rename it to PyMem_DEL in
> > the distribution
>
> my proposal is to have only one of these,
> and force people on non-ANSI platforms
> to provide a workaround.
>
> </F>
Agreed. So the concrete proposal is this, right?
(mymalloc.h)
...
#define PyMem_FREE(p) free((ANY *)p)
...
#define PyMem_DEL(p) PyMem_FREE(p)
#define PyMem_XDEL(p) PyMem_FREE(p) /* obsolete */
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