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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 #6 from Philip Hazel <ph10@???> ---
(In reply to Markus Elfring from comment #5)

> This information is interesting. Does it eventually qualify for backporting
> in API descriptions?


Backporting to what? To PCRE1? That is now 3 years out-of-date.

> How much do you try to avoid duplicate (or redunant) checks in related
> software?


I'm sorry, I don't understand the question.

> The tolerance for null pointers in specific parameters could be expressed
> for each function.


When NULL is a valid value, it is usually mentioned. The ..._free() functions
were an exception which is now rectified.

> I would find it helpful to list these functions also in a corresponding
> documentation section.


Which functions? Several functions allow *some* of their arguments to be NULL,
see for example, pcre2_match(), but I can't see how listing them separately is
useful. (And it's hard enough already keeping all the documentation up-to-date,
without adding any more. :-)

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