[PATCH] Skip the null pointer check before calling malloc

[Alex Henrie]

# HG changeset patch
# User Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24 at gmail.com>
# Date 1447827030 25200
#      Tue Nov 17 23:10:30 2015 -0700
# Node ID 33cb807d8bf61823ee110c22e46b79e33ffafbdd
# Parent  05899a336fcd9bae4356ae1eb5cb03c55aa92c1d
Skip the null pointer check before calling malloc.

"If ptr is a null pointer, realloc() shall be equivalent to malloc() for
the specified size."
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/realloc.html

Also, sizeof(char*) is more correct here than sizeof(char**), although
in practice it doesn't make a difference.

diff --git a/src/java.instrument/share/native/libinstrument/InvocationAdapter.c b/src/java.instrument/share/native/libinstrument/InvocationAdapter.c
--- a/src/java.instrument/share/native/libinstrument/InvocationAdapter.c
+++ b/src/java.instrument/share/native/libinstrument/InvocationAdapter.c
@@ -519,21 +519,17 @@ splitPathList(const char* str, int* path
     int count = 0;
     char** segments = NULL;
     char* c = (char*) str;
     while (*c != '\0') {
         while (*c == ' ') c++;          /* skip leading spaces */
         if (*c == '\0') {
             break;
         }
-        if (segments == NULL) {
-            segments = (char**)malloc( sizeof(char**) );
-        } else {
-            segments = (char**)realloc( segments, (count+1)*sizeof(char**) );
-        }
+        segments = (char**)realloc( segments, (count+1)*sizeof(char*) );
         jplis_assert(segments != (char**)NULL);
         segments[count++] = c;
         c = strchr(c, ' ');
         if (c == NULL) {
             break;
         }
         *c = '\0';
         c++;