Re: [Libvir] RFC: safer memory allocation APIs with compile time checking
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 10:41:46AM +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 03:39 -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> The proposal may help clean a lot of things, but VIR_REALLOC I don't
> understand, what did i missed ?
Looks to me like VIR_REALLOC() would be a rarely used API and Dan just
had a typo in the above example - it should have used VIR_REALLOC_N()
ah, okay, I'm not the only one :-)
I'm having difficulty thinking of how VIR_REALLOC() might be
interesting
- e.g. the highly contrived example below.
[...]
struct bar *get_bar(int i, int j)
{
struct bar *bar;
struct foo *foo;
if (!(foo = get_foo(i)))
return NULL;
bar = (struct bar *) foo;
if (!VIR_REALLOC(bar)) {
Seems to me it's usable only if you cast and grow to a different kind of
structure. i would rather ban code like this than explicitely allow it ;-)
Daniel
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