Re: [PATCH 1/6] xdiff/xmacros.h: remove unused XDL_PTRFREE

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Nov 19, 2021, 14:32 UTC
Message-ID: <YZe1fcGztalCRnb4@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <patch-1.6-32bb8ad4de0-20211119T124420Z-avarab@gmail.com>

On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 01:46:21PM +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

> This macro was added in 3443546f6ef (Use a *real* built-in diff
> generator, 2006-03-24), but none of the xdiff code uses it, it uses
> xdl_free() directly.

Makes sense. Even if we wanted to use it, it is equivalent to our own FREE_AND_NULL() anyway (since xdl_free() is really just an alias for free()).

-Peff

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