[libvirt] [PATCH 02/10] internal: Introduce macro for stealing pointers
John Ferlan
jferlan at redhat.com
Wed Aug 3 11:14:25 UTC 2016
On 08/03/2016 04:10 AM, Peter Krempa wrote:
> VIR_STEAL copies the second argument into the first and then sets it to
> NULL. This is useful for stealing pointers.
> ---
> src/internal.h | 12 ++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/src/internal.h b/src/internal.h
> index 0dc34c7..c633ee6 100644
> --- a/src/internal.h
> +++ b/src/internal.h
> @@ -307,6 +307,18 @@
> } while (0)
>
> /**
> + * VIR_STEAL:
> + *
> + * Steals pointer passed as second argument into the first argument. Second
> + * argument must not have side effects.
> + */
> +# define VIR_STEAL(a, b) \
> + do { \
> + (a) = (b); \
> + (b) = NULL;\
> + } while (0)
> +
> +/**
> * virCheckFlags:
> * @supported: an OR'ed set of supported flags
> * @retval: return value in case unsupported flags were passed
>
While one can look at the code and deduce what it does - the name is not
that descriptive. VIR_ASSIGN_PTR or VIR_ASSIGN_POINTER? Just a thought...
It's also not used until patch 9 - perhaps move it a bit closer to that.
John
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