[libvirt] RFC: Use __attribute__ ((cleanup) in libvirt ?

[Michal Privoznik]

On 01/09/2017 05:58 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
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> I'm wondering what people think of making use of this in libvirt ?

Apart from what have been said (I share the same concerns) I like the
idea. All the "limitations" - we already have them. You have to
initialize variables even when using 'goto cleanup'. But with this
feature we can save few lines of code in a lot of functions. Therefore
I'm up for it. BTW: do you know when was this introduced? Whether this
feature is available on all prehistoric^Wstill supported systems like RHEL6.

BTW: I've added this idea onto our GSoC page:

http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Google_Summer_of_Code_2017#Automatic_freeing_of_memory

Sounds like perfect job for a student to me. Unless there's some
deadline to meet.

Michal