[pcre-dev] [Bug 2285] Document tolerance for null pointers i…

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Subject: [pcre-dev] [Bug 2285] Document tolerance for null pointers in specific function parameters
https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2285

--- Comment #2 from Markus Elfring <elfring@???> ---
(In reply to Philip Hazel from comment #1)
> All the xxx_free() functions do nothing for NULL arguments.


* Is an immediate return also a noteworthy action? ;-)

* Since which version of the application programming interface was this detail
valid?


> I have updated the documentation for these two and for many others.


Thanks for such an improvement.
https://vcs.pcre.org/pcre2?view=revision&revision=951

* I am curious if this API property will trigger more collateral evolution in
related software libraries.

* Is there a need to mark such resource release functions in a special way so
they could be grouped?

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