[libvirt] [PATCHv2 00/11] util: add VIR_(INSERT|DELETE)_ELEMENTS_N

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 01:46:46PM -0400, Laine Stump wrote:
> This is a repost of 
> 
>    https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2012-October/msg01080.html
> 
> with PATCH 03/12 squashed into 01/12. There are no other changes.
> 
> ************************************
> 
> PATCH 01/11 defines a couple new macros/functions to simplify
> inserting/deleting items in the middle of an array. The remaining
> patches switch over various pieces of existing code to use these new
> macros rather than directly calling memmove, etc.
> 
> There are several other places where these macros could *almost* be
> used, except that they use the model of pre-allocating the larger
> array, then performing a bunch of operations (that may fail) and then
> finally move items around in the array and adjust its count. I'm
> wondering if I should add a flags arg to these to allow for specifying
> a "Don't realloc" flag - when it was given, the memory allocation
> operation would be presumed already done (in the case of insert) or to
> be done after return (for delete). Any opinions on that? (such as
> maybe "that's too many options!")

I haven't reviewed the patches in detail, but I have to say that I
like the addition of these array helpers.


Daniel
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