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
+3 -6
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@@ -330,8 +330,7 @@ int read_full_stream(FILE *f, char **contents, size_t *size) {
}
buf[l] = 0;
*contents = buf;
buf = NULL; /* do not free */
*contents = TAKE_PTR(buf);
if (size)
*size = l;
@@ -1432,8 +1431,7 @@ int open_tmpfile_linkable(const char *target, int flags, char **ret_path) {
if (fd < 0)
return -errno;
*ret_path = tmp;
tmp = NULL;
*ret_path = TAKE_PTR(tmp);
return fd;
}
@@ -1519,8 +1517,7 @@ int read_nul_string(FILE *f, char **ret) {
return -ENOMEM;
}
*ret = x;
x = NULL;
*ret = TAKE_PTR(x);
return 0;
}