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From: Richard M Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
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Subject: Re: emacs' turn: remove useless if-before-free tests
Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2008 10:03:01 -0400
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Given that most Emacs code calls xfree rather than free, there are not
many of these if statements, and we rarely add any.
Why remove them?