Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] util: string: Introduce macro for automatic string lists

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On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 10:52:47 +0100, Erik Skultety wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 04:48:23PM +0100, Peter Krempa wrote:
> > Similar to VIR_AUTOPTR, VIR_AUTOSTRINGLIST defines a list of strings
> > which will be freed if the pointer is leaving scope.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  src/libvirt_private.syms |  1 +
> >  src/util/virstring.c     | 10 ++++++++++
> >  src/util/virstring.h     | 10 ++++++++++
> >  3 files changed, 21 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/src/libvirt_private.syms b/src/libvirt_private.syms
> > index 038a744981..e68e3f3a3b 100644
> > --- a/src/libvirt_private.syms
> > +++ b/src/libvirt_private.syms
> > @@ -2958,6 +2958,7 @@ virStringHasControlChars;
> >  virStringIsEmpty;
> >  virStringIsPrintable;
> >  virStringListAdd;
> > +virStringListAutoFree;
> >  virStringListFree;
> >  virStringListFreeCount;
> >  virStringListGetFirstWithPrefix;
> > diff --git a/src/util/virstring.c b/src/util/virstring.c
> > index e890dde546..8a791f96d4 100644
> > --- a/src/util/virstring.c
> > +++ b/src/util/virstring.c
> > @@ -318,6 +318,16 @@ void virStringListFree(char **strings)
> >  }
> >
> >
> > +void virStringListAutoFree(char ***strings)
> > +{
> > +    if (!*strings)
> > +        return;
> > +
> > +    virStringListFree(*strings);
> > +    *strings = NULL;
> > +}
> > +
> > +
> >  /**
> >   * virStringListFreeCount:
> >   * @strings: array of strings to free
> > diff --git a/src/util/virstring.h b/src/util/virstring.h
> > index aef82471c2..d14b7f4f49 100644
> > --- a/src/util/virstring.h
> > +++ b/src/util/virstring.h
> > @@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ int virStringListCopy(char ***dst,
> >                        const char **src);
> >
> >  void virStringListFree(char **strings);
> > +void virStringListAutoFree(char ***strings);
> >  void virStringListFreeCount(char **strings,
> >                              size_t count);
> >
> > @@ -307,6 +308,15 @@ int virStringParsePort(const char *str,
> >                         unsigned int *port)
> >      ATTRIBUTE_NONNULL(2) ATTRIBUTE_RETURN_CHECK;
> >
> > +/**
> > + * VIR_AUTOSTRINGLIST:
> > + *
> > + * Declares a NULL-terminated list of strings which will be automatically freed
> > + * when the pointer goes out of scope.
> > + */
> > +# define VIR_AUTOSTRINGLIST \
> > +        __attribute__((cleanup(virStringListAutoFree))) char **
> > +
> 
> IIRC at the beginning we said that all the VIR_AUTO macros should be consistent
> in terms of how we use the macro, IOW:
> 
> VIR_AUTOFREE(type)
> VIR_AUTOPTR(type)
> VIR_AUTOCLEAN(type)
> 
> although I can't say I personally don't like your version, nevertheless, as I
> said we should remain consistent and use 'char **' explicitly when using the
> macro.

I'm not sure I understood. Did you mean that it should be used as:

     VIR_AUTOSTRINGLIST char **list = NULL; ?

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