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Subject: [Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#15126) patch: fc_free macro
From: "Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 16:51:43 -0800
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<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=15126 >

Christian Prochaska wrote:
> <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=15126 >
> 
>>[jdorje - Do 12. Jan 2006, 00:08:51]:
>>
>>but FC_FREE still needs to be capitalized.

> Oh, then it seems I still didn't understand the problem :-/
> 
> What is the crucial difference to the "fc_malloc" macro?

fc_malloc behaves exactly like a function call would.

fc_free does not, because it modifies the parameter being given to it, 
which is impossible using a function.

-jason
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