[fdo-dev] Checking new'ed pointers for NULL

[Mateusz Loskot]

Greg Boone wrote:
> Why do you advocate not to test pointers for NULL before calling delete
> operator?

Because of:
- C++ Standard/ 5.3.5 Delete / 2
- delete does nothing if its operand == 0, in other words when called
with 0 (null pointer), it has no effect
- C++ language guarantees delete p will do nothing if p is null-pointer
- testing for NULL is redundant and forces reader to analyze 2 x more
code than it's necessary
- it does not generate redundant CPU instructions, what may introduce
better performance when deallocating elements of big collection
- it may save programmer's time and keyboard ,-)

Cheers
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Mateusz Loskot
http://mateusz.loskot.net