update code-in-comment to accept cast of free arg

* build-aux/useless-if-before-free: Update regexp.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/build-aux/useless-if-before-free b/build-aux/useless-if-before-free
index 48f55c661a..99b3c97432 100755
--- a/build-aux/useless-if-before-free
+++ b/build-aux/useless-if-before-free
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # Detect instances of "if (p) free (p);".
 # Likewise for "if (p != NULL) free (p);".  And with braces.
 
-my $VERSION = '2008-05-01 19:11'; # UTC
+my $VERSION = '2008-05-25 15:40'; # UTC
 # The definition above must lie within the first 8 lines in order
 # for the Emacs time-stamp write hook (at end) to update it.
 # If you change this file with Emacs, please let the write hook
@@ -149,12 +149,12 @@ my $foo = <<'EOF';
 # This adjusts them, removing the unnecessary "if (p)" part.
 
 # FIXME: do something like this as an option (doesn't do braces):
-git ls-files -z |xargs -0 \
-perl -0x3b -pi -e 's/\bif\s*\(\s*(\S+?)(?:\s*!=\s*NULL)?\s*\)\s+(k?free\s*\(\s*\1\s*\))/$2/s'
-
 useless-if-before-free -l $(lid -knone free) | xargs -0 \
   perl -0x3b -pi -e \
-   's/\bif\s*\(\s*(\S+?)(?:\s*!=\s*NULL)?\s*\)\s+(free\s*\(\s*\1\s*\))/$2/s'
+   's/\bif\s*\(\s*(\S+?)(?:\s*!=\s*NULL)?\s*\)\s+(free\s*\((?:\s*\([^)]+\))?\s*\1\s*\))/$2/s'
+
+# Or, with git:
+git ls-files -z |xargs -0 perl -0x3b -pi -e '...'
 
 Be careful that the result of the above transformation is valid.
 If the matched string is followed by "else", then obviously, it won't be.