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Hi,

>>>>> On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 14:30:16 +0200
>>>>> Thomas Quinot <thomas@FreeBSD.ORG> said:

thomas> Currently a call to freeaddrinfo (NULL) causes a segfault. Is there any
thomas> reason why we should not make that a no-op? This would make freeaddrinfo
thomas> behave in a manner consistent with free(3), and also with what happens
thomas> on Linux.

Because, the behavior of freeaddrinfo (NULL) is undefined in RFC 2553
nor RFC 3493.  Having such an assumption is a potentially bug and
lose portability.

Sincerely,

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