[systemd-devel] [PATCH] login/sd-login.c: make use of _cleanup_free_ and friends

Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek zbyszek at in.waw.pl
Wed Apr 17 07:30:31 PDT 2013


On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 04:25:40PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Wed, 17.04.13 16:12, harald at redhat.com (harald at redhat.com) wrote:
> 
> > -        char *root, *cgroup, *p, *cc;
> > +        char _cleanup_free_ *root = NULL, *cgroup = NULL, *p = NULL, *cc = NULL;
> 
> Hmm, can we agree on a common syntax for this?
> 
> I tend to put the "_cleanup_free_" before the type, and Zbigniew and
> Harald after.
> 
> I kinda prefer putting it first, since it puts the emphasis on the
> cleanup logic, which I think is a good thing, since that's really
> important to grok the code. i.e. the cleanup stuff is not unessential
> decoration, but really important, so putting it first sounds good to me.
> 
>             _cleanup_free_ char *s = NULL;
>             char _cleanup_free_ char *t = NULL;
> 
> I much prefer the first syntax...
I don't care strongly, so I'm fine with putting it in front.

Zbyszek


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