callum@frost.bain.oz.au (Callum Gibson) writes:

>If it's going to error-check stuff like that it should do it with asserts.
>To silently allow bad code like fclose(NULL) is simply encouraging bad
>programming.

Have you looked at the code for fclose()?  The first thing it does is
dereference its argument.  If the argument is NULL, then the result is
a SEGV and a core dump.  That's not very silent. :-)
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