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)

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/src/basic/fileio.c b/src/basic/fileio.c
index 2e8991925..dd8fb1fcb 100644
--- a/src/basic/fileio.c
+++ b/src/basic/fileio.c
@@ -330,8 +330,7 @@ int read_full_stream(FILE *f, char **contents, size_t *size) {
         }
 
         buf[l] = 0;
-        *contents = buf;
-        buf = NULL; /* do not free */
+        *contents = TAKE_PTR(buf);
 
         if (size)
                 *size = l;
@@ -1441,8 +1440,7 @@ int open_tmpfile_linkable(const char *target, int flags, char **ret_path) {
         if (fd < 0)
                 return -errno;
 
-        *ret_path = tmp;
-        tmp = NULL;
+        *ret_path = TAKE_PTR(tmp);
 
         return fd;
 }
@@ -1530,8 +1528,7 @@ int read_nul_string(FILE *f, char **ret) {
                         return -ENOMEM;
         }
 
-        *ret = x;
-        x = NULL;
+        *ret = TAKE_PTR(x);
 
         return 0;
 }