On Sun, 17 Jun 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote:

> > macro that behaves like `new' in C++:
> > | #define knew(type, flags)	(type *)kmalloc(sizeof(type), (flags))
> >
> > If the types in the assignment don't match, gcc will tell you.
> 
> Well, since we are still beating this one to death, I'd written a "knew" 
> macro as well, and put it aside.  It does the assignment for you too:
> 
>    #define knew(p) ((p) = (typeof(p)) kmalloc(sizeof(*(p)), GFP_KERNEL))

> Terse and clear at the same time, and type safe.  I still don't like it much. 

And ungreppable, not to mention gratitious use of GNU extension.

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