On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 10:10:54AM +0200, Peter Krempa wrote: > VIR_STEAL copies the second argument into the first and then sets it to > NULL. This is useful for stealing pointers. > --- > src/internal.h | 12 ++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/src/internal.h b/src/internal.h > index 0dc34c7..c633ee6 100644 > --- a/src/internal.h > +++ b/src/internal.h > @@ -307,6 +307,18 @@ > } while (0) > > /** > + * VIR_STEAL: > + * > + * Steals pointer passed as second argument into the first argument. Second > + * argument must not have side effects. > + */ > +# define VIR_STEAL(a, b) \ > + do { \ > + (a) = (b); \ > + (b) = NULL;\ > + } while (0) I guess that there is no harm having this macro even though it's only two lines of code. I would align the backslash to the same column as we tend to do in libvirt code. ACK -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list