/* -*- mode: C; c-file-style: "gnu"; indent-tabs-mode: nil; -*- * * Copyright (C) 2012 Colin Walters * * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either * version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. * * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU * Lesser General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public * License along with this library; if not, write to the * Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, * Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */ #include "config.h" #include "gsystem-local-alloc.h" /** * SECTION:gslocalalloc * @title: GSystem local allocation * @short_description: Release local variables automatically when they go out of scope * * These macros leverage the GCC extension __attribute__ ((cleanup)) * to allow calling a cleanup function such as g_free() when a * variable goes out of scope. See * for more information on the attribute. * * The provided macros make it easy to use the cleanup attribute for * types that come with GLib. The primary two are #gs_free and * #gs_unref_object, which correspond to g_free() and * g_object_unref(), respectively. * * The rationale behind this is that particularly when handling error * paths, it can be very tricky to ensure the right variables are * freed. With this, one simply applies gs_lobj to a * locally-allocated #GFile for example, and it will be automatically * unreferenced when it goes out of scope. * * Note - you should only use these macros for stack * allocated variables. They don't provide garbage * collection or let you avoid freeing things. They're simply a * compiler assisted deterministic mechanism for calling a cleanup * function when a stack frame ends. * * Calling g_free automatically * * * GFile * * create_file (GError **error) * { * gs_free char *random_id = NULL; * * if (!prepare_file (error)) * return NULL; * * random_id = alloc_random_id (); * * return create_file_real (error); * // Note that random_id is freed here automatically * } * * * */ void gs_local_free (void *loc) { void **location = loc; if (location) g_free (*location); } #define _gs_local_free(type, function) do { \ void **location = loc; \ if (location) \ { \ type value = *location; \ if (value) \ function (value); \ } \ } while (0) void gs_local_obj_unref (void *loc) { _gs_local_free(GObject*, g_object_unref); } void gs_local_variant_unref (void *loc) { _gs_local_free(GVariant*, g_variant_unref); } void gs_local_variant_iter_free (void *loc) { _gs_local_free(GVariantIter*, g_variant_iter_free); } void gs_local_variant_builder_unref (void *loc) { _gs_local_free(GVariantBuilder*, g_variant_builder_unref); } void gs_local_ptrarray_unref (void *loc) { _gs_local_free(GPtrArray*, g_ptr_array_unref); } void gs_local_array_unref (void *loc) { _gs_local_free(GArray*, g_array_unref); } void gs_local_hashtable_unref (void *loc) { _gs_local_free(GHashTable*, g_hash_table_unref); } void gs_local_checksum_free (void *loc) { _gs_local_free(GChecksum*, g_checksum_free); } void gs_local_bytes_unref (void *loc) { _gs_local_free(GBytes*, g_bytes_unref); } void gs_local_strfreev (void *loc) { _gs_local_free(char **, g_strfreev); }