[Libvir] RFC: safer memory allocation APIs with compile time checking

[Daniel Veillard]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 05:51:37PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 08:29:33PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > After updating the virBuffer APIs to protect against improper usage I have
> > been thinking about how we might provider safer memory allocation APIs 
> > with protection against common usage errors and compile time validation of
> > checks for failure.
> 
> Here is an updated version which removes the bogus VIR_REALLOC function
> and illustrates use in capabilities.c which is a more interesting test
> case than hash.c

  Clearly that makes for cleaner code, and more importantly safer.
We should do this, possibly one module at a time, then we can try to
add new syntax-check rules forbidding malloc/realloc. Also potentially
we could hook up memory checks at runtime with the macro, if we need
to in the future.
  +1 for applying this now, then we can fix one module at a time later.
we don't need to grow a gigantic patch.

Daniel

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