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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@@ -50,10 +50,8 @@ static int specifier_prefix_and_instance(char specifier, void *data, void *userd
if (!ans)
return -ENOMEM;
*ret = ans;
} else {
*ret = prefix;
prefix = NULL;
}
} else
*ret = TAKE_PTR(prefix);
return 0;
}