On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 07:46:05AM +0200, Toth Istvan wrote: > On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 05:56 -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote: > > How is it smaller code ? > > Actually, that's not the new-style code, It's just the bugfixed one. I > have not converted that file yet. heh, okay :-) > To see the new style code, look at the *Storage*.c files. > > A similar function looks like this there: > > JNIEXPORT jlong JNICALL Java_org_libvirt_StoragePool__1storageVolCreateXML > (JNIEnv *env, jobject obj, jlong VSPP, jstring xmlDesc, jint flags){ > return generic_CreateDefineXML_with_flags(env, obj, VSPP, xmlDesc, flags, (void* (*)(void*, const char *, unsigned int))&virStorageVolCreateXML); > } > ah, yes, I see now ! > > > > It seems to be that the old code didn't ever tried to free allocated strings > > and the new one does, which is the explanation of the code grows. I would side > > with Chris on the usage of macros instead of call like this. There is 2 reasons > > one is the readability, but also the static type checking. > > Actually, the old-style function does static type checking, it's just > new style that suffers there. > > Using macros is a great idea, that may get rid of all those nasty casts. yes that's probably the best alternative, thanks ! Daniel -- Red Hat Virtualization group http://redhat.com/virtualization/ Daniel Veillard | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ veillard@xxxxxxxxxx | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list