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Re: Trivial change: Remove superfluous guarding of errno around free



* John Scott:

> On Sunday, December 20, 2020 3:45:47 PM EST Florian Weimer wrote:
>> glibc currently does [set errno on successful free]:
>> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17924
>
> Wow, I had no idea! Nevermind then, at least for now, although is it
> a coincidence that the glibc bug happened to have patches posted
> yesterday that ought to resolve it?

I probably wouldn't have bothered to find the bug report if it had not
had recent activity.

Due to the GCC bug, your patch does not actually change the generated
code, so maybe it should still be applied, even though glibc has not
been fixed yet.


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