Changeset 74 for trunk/src/helpers/xstring.c

Timestamp:

May 24, 2001, 5:21:06 PM (24 years ago)

Author:

umoeller

Message:

Misc updates

File:

• trunk/src/helpers/xstring.c (modified) (1 diff)

trunk/src/helpers/xstring.c

@@ -357 +357 @@
  *      have been created using xstrCreate.
  *
+ *      This uses a pointer to a PXSTRING so that
+ *      the pointer is automatically reset to NULL
+ *      by this function AND to avoid confusion
+ *      with xstrClear.
+ *
  *@@added V0.9.6 (2000-11-01) [umoeller]
- */
-
-VOID xstrFree(PXSTRING pxstr)               // in/out: string
-{
-    if (pxstr)
-    {
-        xstrClear(pxstr);
-        free(pxstr);
+ *@@changed V0.9.12 (2001-05-24) [umoeller]: changed prototype to use pointer to pointer
+ */
+
+VOID xstrFree(PXSTRING *ppxstr)               // in/out: string
+{
+    PXSTRING p;
+    if (    ppxstr
+         && (p = *ppxstr)
+       )
+    {
+        xstrClear(p);
+        free(p);
+        *ppxstr = NULL;
     }
 }