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We weren't dereferencing the variable, so this should have been safe. However, it isn't clear in the C and C++ standards whether it legitimately was safe. So let's just fix it.

simplereader.c:180:9: warning: pointer ‘buf’ may be used after ‘free’ [-Wuse-after-free]
simplereader.c:177:5: note: call to ‘free’ here

We weren't dereferencing the variable, so this should have been safe.
However, it isn't clear in the C and C++ standards whether it
legitimately was safe. So let's just fix it.

```
simplereader.c:180:9: warning: pointer ‘buf’ may be used after ‘free’ [-Wuse-after-free]
simplereader.c:177:5: note: call to ‘free’ here
```

Signed-off-by: Thiago Macieira <[email protected]>
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