This macro will read a pointer of any type, return it, and set the
pointer to NULL. This is useful as an explicit concept of passing
ownership of a memory area between pointers.
This takes inspiration from Rust:
https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/option/enum.Option.html#method.take
and was suggested by Alan Jenkins (@sourcejedi).
It drops ~160 lines of code from our codebase, which makes me like it.
Also, I think it clarifies passing of ownership, and thus helps
readability a bit (at least for the initiated who know the new macro)
There isn't much difference, but in general we prefer to use the standard
functions. glibc provides reallocarray since version 2.26.
I moved explicit_bzero is configure test to the bottom, so that the two stdlib
functions are at the bottom.
These are similar to memdup() and newdup(), but reserve one extra NUL
byte at the end of the new allocation and initialize it. It's useful
when copying out data from fixed size character arrays where NUL
termination can't be assumed.
It's a common pattern, so add a helper for it. A macro is necessary
because a function that takes a pointer to a pointer would be type specific,
similarly to cleanup functions. Seems better to use a macro.
This patch contains a set of little cleanups for alloc-util.h:
1. The malloc_multiply(), realloc_multiply() and memdup_multiply()
functions check allocation related parameters on overflow. Let's
move them to the separate size_multiply_overflow() function for
simplicity, code duplication prevention and possible reuse in future.
2. use SIZE_MAX from stdlib instead of ((size_t) - 1) to be more
clear.
3. The 'a'/'b' variables are renamed to 'size' and 'need' to be
more clear.'
Lennart Poettering