From b60c12e91ce56b9d90a3a79bfe65d560c6df8254 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric House <eehouse@trand>
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 22:38:52 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] allow CommonPrefs to be null

---
 xwords4/common/game.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/xwords4/common/game.c b/xwords4/common/game.c
index 20cf204da..efc0fcfb1 100644
--- a/xwords4/common/game.c
+++ b/xwords4/common/game.c
@@ -107,8 +107,10 @@ game_makeNewGame( MPFORMAL XWGame* game, CurGameInfo* gi,
     game->board = board_make( MPPARM(mpool) game->model, game->server, 
                               draw, util );
 
-    server_prefsChanged( game->server, cp );
-    board_prefsChanged( game->board, cp );
+    if ( NULL != cp ) {
+        server_prefsChanged( game->server, cp );
+        board_prefsChanged( game->board, cp );
+    }
 } /* game_makeNewGame */
 
 void