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author | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2018-03-22 16:53:26 +0100 |
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committer | Sven Eden <yamakuzure@gmx.net> | 2018-08-24 16:47:08 +0200 |
commit | 0c2b96fea853ce7f16a9326c3c98117d75defdf6 (patch) | |
tree | ff3d108a1d7f295af840137e3c7f77e9d25692aa /src/basic/alloc-util.h | |
parent | 6895c0be1845203e14b776dd8a15a97780ac6942 (diff) |
macro: introduce TAKE_PTR() macro
This macro will read a pointer of any type, return it, and set the
pointer to NULL. This is useful as an explicit concept of passing
ownership of a memory area between pointers.
This takes inspiration from Rust:
https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/option/enum.Option.html#method.take
and was suggested by Alan Jenkins (@sourcejedi).
It drops ~160 lines of code from our codebase, which makes me like it.
Also, I think it clarifies passing of ownership, and thus helps
readability a bit (at least for the initiated who know the new macro)
Diffstat (limited to 'src/basic/alloc-util.h')
-rw-r--r-- | src/basic/alloc-util.h | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/basic/alloc-util.h b/src/basic/alloc-util.h index ec7808c1f..b1e0edbb7 100644 --- a/src/basic/alloc-util.h +++ b/src/basic/alloc-util.h @@ -130,3 +130,12 @@ void* greedy_realloc0(void **p, size_t *allocated, size_t need, size_t size); _new_ = alloca_align(_size_, (align)); \ (void*)memset(_new_, 0, _size_); \ }) + +/* Takes inspiration from Rusts's Option::take() method: reads and returns a pointer, but at the same time resets it to + * NULL. See: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/option/enum.Option.html#method.take */ +#define TAKE_PTR(ptr) \ + ({ \ + typeof(ptr) _ptr_ = (ptr); \ + (ptr) = NULL; \ + _ptr_; \ + }) |