util: introduce typesafe_qsort(), a typesafe version of qsort()/qsort_safe()

It does two things:

1. It derives the element size from the array argument type

2. It derives the right type for the function from the array argument
   type

Using this macro call should make the invocations of qsort() quite a bit
safer.
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Lennart Poettering 2018-03-27 14:56:29 +02:00
parent b667d50d34
commit 1ce360813d

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@ -103,6 +103,14 @@ static inline void qsort_safe(void *base, size_t nmemb, size_t size, comparison_
qsort(base, nmemb, size, compar);
}
/* A wrapper around the above, but that adds typesafety: the element size is automatically derived from the type and so
* is the prototype for the comparison function */
#define typesafe_qsort(p, n, func) \
({ \
int (*_func_)(const typeof(p[0])*, const typeof(p[0])*) = func; \
qsort_safe((p), (n), sizeof((p)[0]), (__compar_fn_t) _func_); \
})
/**
* Normal memcpy requires src to be nonnull. We do nothing if n is 0.
*/