macro: introduce TAKE_PTR() macro

This macro will read a pointer of any type, return it, and set the
pointer to NULL. This is useful as an explicit concept of passing
ownership of a memory area between pointers.

This takes inspiration from Rust:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/option/enum.Option.html#method.take

and was suggested by Alan Jenkins (@sourcejedi).

It drops ~160 lines of code from our codebase, which makes me like it.
Also, I think it clarifies passing of ownership, and thus helps
readability a bit (at least for the initiated who know the new macro)
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Lennart Poettering
2018-03-22 20:21:42 +01:00
parent 1147eef0b6
commit ae2a15bc14
93 changed files with 215 additions and 379 deletions
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@@ -103,8 +103,7 @@ int capability_set_to_string_alloc(uint64_t set, char **s) {
str[n > 0 ? n - 1 : 0] = '\0'; /* truncate the last space, if it's there */
*s = str;
str = NULL;
*s = TAKE_PTR(str);
return 0;
}