The function "free" is documented in the way that no action shall occur for
a passed null pointer. It is therefore not needed that a function caller
repeats a corresponding check.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18775608/free-a-null-pointer-anyway-or-check-first
This issue was fixed by using the software Coccinelle 1.0.0-rc24.
Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
... for the local variable name in functions holding the return
code. Using the same name universally makes code easier to read and
follow.
Also, unify code for checking for CURLcode errors with:
if(result) or if(!result)
instead of
if(result == CURLE_OK), if(CURLE_OK == result) or if(result != CURLE_OK)