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+ o Minor features (defensive programming):
+ - Most of the functions in Tor that free objects have been replaced
+ with macros that free the objects and set the corresponding pointers
+ to NULL. This change should help prevent a large class of dangling
+ pointer bugs. Closes ticket 24337.
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+ - Where possible, the tor_free() macro now only evaluates its input once.
+ Part of ticket 24337.