Remove useless if-before-free test.

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

2 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/lib-src/ChangeLog b/lib-src/ChangeLog
index 2d2956f5b3d..590af7692ef 100644
--- 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 219e9d24ac1..ad366bb2e06 100644
--- 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);