Merge branch 'ab/free-and-null'

A common pattern to free a piece of memory and assign NULL to the
pointer that used to point at it has been replaced with a new
FREE_AND_NULL() macro.

* ab/free-and-null:
  *.[ch] refactoring: make use of the FREE_AND_NULL() macro
  coccinelle: make use of the "expression" FREE_AND_NULL() rule
  coccinelle: add a rule to make "expression" code use FREE_AND_NULL()
  coccinelle: make use of the "type" FREE_AND_NULL() rule
  coccinelle: add a rule to make "type" code use FREE_AND_NULL()
  git-compat-util: add a FREE_AND_NULL() wrapper around free(ptr); ptr = NULL

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/help.c b/help.c
index 8ba0777..07b1853 100644
--- a/help.c
+++ b/help.c
@@ -269,9 +269,8 @@ static void add_cmd_list(struct cmdnames *cmds, struct cmdnames *old)
 
 	for (i = 0; i < old->cnt; i++)
 		cmds->names[cmds->cnt++] = old->names[i];
-	free(old->names);
+	FREE_AND_NULL(old->names);
 	old->cnt = 0;
-	old->names = NULL;
 }
 
 /* An empirically derived magic number */