Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 2 Aug 2007 14:24:44 +0200 (CEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] type safe allocator |
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On Aug 2 2007 16:04, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: >On 8/2/07, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> wrote: >> fooptr = kmalloc(sizeof(struct foo), ...); > >Key word is "traditional". Good traditional form which even half-competent >C programmers immediately parse in retina.
And being aware of the potential type-unsafety makes programmers more careful IMHO.
> >> +/** >> + * alloc_struct - allocate given type object >> + * @type: the type of the object to allocate >> + * @flags: the type of memory to allocate. >> + */ >> +#define alloc_struct(type, flags) ((type *) kmalloc(sizeof(type), flags))
>someone will write alloc_struct(int, GFP_KERNEL), I promise.
and someone else will write
struct complexthing foo; alloc_struct(foo, GFP_KERNEL);
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