Hi. I believe that the author's intention was to dereference the double pointer before assigning it NULL so that it has an effect outside the function. Signed-off-by: Daniel T. Borelli --- lib/libalpm/signing.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/libalpm/signing.c b/lib/libalpm/signing.c index cab31f8e..3c4f883f 100644 --- a/lib/libalpm/signing.c +++ b/lib/libalpm/signing.c @@ -479,7 +479,7 @@ static int email_from_uid(const char *uid, char **email) char *start, *end; if (uid == NULL) { - email = NULL; + *email = NULL; return -1; } @@ -492,7 +492,7 @@ static int email_from_uid(const char *uid, char **email) STRNDUP(*email, start+1, end-start-1, return -1); return 0; } else { - email = NULL; + *email = NULL; return -1; } } -- 2.24.0