Remove useless if-before-free test.

* make-docfile.c (scan_lisp_file): Remove useless test.

diff --git a/lib-src/ChangeLog b/lib-src/ChangeLog
index 2d2956f5b3de12221ec1be879efeadf282f725b9..590af7692efd60b2976329dcfe953018d1194ddd 100644 (file)
--- a/lib-src/ChangeLog
+++ b/lib-src/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2009-06-29  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>
+
+       Remove useless if-before-free test.
+       * make-docfile.c (scan_lisp_file): Remove useless test.
+
 2009-06-23  Dan Nicolaescu  <dann@ics.uci.edu>
 
        * Makefile.in (movemail.o): Don't pass -Demacs, unused.

diff --git a/lib-src/make-docfile.c b/lib-src/make-docfile.c
index 219e9d24ac1de62828a7358f4bdfa6f9fd9735f7..ad366bb2e064303d6994f6c2c62b3c323fa26d32 100644 (file)
--- a/lib-src/make-docfile.c
+++ b/lib-src/make-docfile.c
@@ -907,8 +907,7 @@ scan_lisp_file (filename, mode)
              length--;
 
              /* Read in the contents.  */
-             if (saved_string != 0)
-               free (saved_string);
+             free (saved_string);
              saved_string = (char *) xmalloc (length);
              for (i = 0; i < length; i++)
                saved_string[i] = getc (infile);