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by Thorrez 2038 days ago
Good point. But it seems like it would require usage like this:

    int* p = malloc(sizeof(int));
    FREE(&p);
What if we instead define the macro like this:

    #define FREE(ptr) do { \
        __typeof__(ptr)* const __x = &(ptr); \
        free(*__x); *__x = NULL; \
    } while(0)
Then make usage slightly shorter, as well as more similar to free():

    int* p = malloc(sizeof(int));
    FREE(p);
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Taking a pointer-to-pointer is intentional to make it clear that the pointer will be modified. That's actually the most important difference from nn3's version IMHO.