From 2a6996bfa4809eb80aa3d89815eee45945764f20 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: millert <>
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 05:57:02 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] It is safe to pass free() a NULL pointer since C89; update
 example to this effect.  OK deraadt@ pvalchev@

---
 src/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3 | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3 b/src/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3
index 73124a20..6cbf6381 100644
--- a/src/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3
+++ b/src/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
 .\" SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
-.\"	$OpenBSD: malloc.3,v 1.30 2003/09/25 11:10:56 deraadt Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: malloc.3,v 1.31 2003/09/26 05:57:02 millert Exp $
 .\"
 .Dd August 27, 1996
 .Dt MALLOC 3
@@ -159,8 +159,7 @@ Better code looks like this:
 .Bd -literal -offset indent
 newsize = size + 50;
 if ((newp = realloc(p, newsize)) == NULL) {
-	if (p)
-		free(p);
+	free(p);
 	p = NULL;
 	size = 0;
 	return (NULL);