[libvirt] [PATCH v2 04/23] util: use glib string allocation/formatting functions
Ján Tomko
jtomko at redhat.com
Tue Oct 8 13:49:50 UTC 2019
On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 06:14:06PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
>Convert the string duplication APIs to use the g_strdup family of APIs.
>
>We previously used the 'strdup-posix' gnulib module because mingw does
>not set errno to ENOMEM on failure
>
>We previously used the 'strndup' gnulib module because this function
>does not exist on mingw.
>
>We previously used the 'vasprintf' gnulib module because of many GNU
>supported format specifiers not working on non-Linux platforms. glib's
>own equivalent standardizes on GNU format specifiers too.
>
>Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange at redhat.com>
>---
> bootstrap.conf | 3 ---
> docs/hacking.html.in | 8 ++++++++
> src/util/virstring.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
> src/util/virstring.h | 8 ++++++++
> 4 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/bootstrap.conf b/bootstrap.conf
>index b98fdedeb1..7105ae2eeb 100644
>--- a/bootstrap.conf
>+++ b/bootstrap.conf
>@@ -82,8 +82,6 @@ snprintf
> socket
> stat-time
> strchrnul
>-strdup-posix
>-strndup
> strerror
> strerror_r-posix
> strptime
>@@ -99,7 +97,6 @@ uname
> unsetenv
> useless-if-before-free
> usleep
>-vasprintf
> verify
> vc-list-files
> vsnprintf
>diff --git a/docs/hacking.html.in b/docs/hacking.html.in
>index 8072796312..5839464e99 100644
>--- a/docs/hacking.html.in
>+++ b/docs/hacking.html.in
>@@ -1020,6 +1020,14 @@ BAD:
> classic libvirt memory allocation APIs and GLib APIs within
> a single method. Keep the style consistent, converting existing
> code to GLib style in a separate, prior commit.</dd>
>+
>+ <dt>VIR_STRDUP, VIR_STRNDUP</dt>
>+ <dd>Prefer the GLib APIs g_strdup and g_strndup.</dd>
>+
>+ <dt>virAsprintf, virVasprintf</dt>
>+ <dd>The GLib APIs g_strdup_printf / g_strdup_vprint can be used,
>+ but beware that they don't abort on OOM, so the libvirt wrappers
>+ may still be desirable to use. Don't use g_vasprintf or g_asprintf.</dd>
What do you mean by g_asprintf? I cannot find that function.
> </dl>
>
> <h2><a id="file_handling">File handling</a></h2>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko at redhat.com>
Jano
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