[sr-dev] shm_free - not setting pointer to zero?

[Richard Good]

Hi

Is there any reason why shm_free does not set the pointer it is freeing to
zero once it is free-ed?

Code like:
*if (pointer) {
            shm_free(pointer);*

Is not really useful seen as how shm_free does not set the pointer to zero
- any double free will still cause a crash.

I suppose it forces the developer to be careful with memory management - is
this the only reason?

Regards
Richard.

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