[libvirt PATCH 2/3] gendispatch: use g_new0 instead of VIR_ALLOC

[Michal Prívozník]

On 9/30/20 4:10 PM, Ján Tomko wrote:
> Take the easy way out and use typeof, because my life
> is too short to spend it reading gendispatch.pl.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko at redhat.com>
> ---
>   src/rpc/gendispatch.pl | 16 +++++++---------
>   1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

Fair enough. We are not storing the type in a usable form anyway. The 
moment we learn the type we push a variable declaration of that type it 
onto @vars_list (if needed) and forget it instantly.

Michal

> 
> diff --git a/src/rpc/gendispatch.pl b/src/rpc/gendispatch.pl
> index 0b2ae59910..91575f4d34 100755
> --- a/src/rpc/gendispatch.pl
> +++ b/src/rpc/gendispatch.pl
> @@ -797,8 +797,7 @@ elsif ($mode eq "server") {
>                       push(@free_list, "    VIR_FREE($1);");
>                       push(@free_list_on_error, "VIR_FREE($1_p);");
>                       push(@prepare_ret_list,
> -                         "if (VIR_ALLOC($1_p) < 0)\n" .
> -                         "        goto cleanup;\n" .
> +                         "$1_p = g_new0(char *, 1);\n" .
>                            "\n" .
>                            "    *$1_p = g_strdup($1);\n");
>   
> @@ -1126,9 +1125,9 @@ elsif ($mode eq "server") {
>   
>               if ($single_ret_as_list) {
>                   print "    /* Allocate return buffer. */\n";
> -                print "    if (VIR_ALLOC_N(ret->$single_ret_list_name.${single_ret_list_name}_val," .
> -                      " args->$single_ret_list_max_var) < 0)\n";
> -                print "        goto cleanup;\n";
> +                print "    ret->$single_ret_list_name.${single_ret_list_name}_val =\n";
> +                print "        g_new0(typeof(*ret->$single_ret_list_name.${single_ret_list_name}_val), " .
> +                                     "args->$single_ret_list_max_var); \n";

Drop the space before newline though.

Michal