We can exploit the fact that gcc warns about int-to-pointer conversion
in ternary cond?(void*):(int) in order to prevent future mistakes of
calling VIR_FREE on a scalar lvalue. For example, between commits
158ba873 and 802e2df, we would have had this warning:
cc1: warnings being treated as errors
remote.c: In function 'remoteDispatchListNetworks':
remote.c:3684:70: error: pointer/integer type mismatch in conditional expression
There are still a number of places that malloc into a const char*;
while it would probably be worth scrubbing them to use char*
instead, that is a separate patch, so we have to cast away const
in VIR_FREE for now.
* src/util/memory.h (VIR_FREE): Make gcc warn about integers.
Iteratively developed from a patch by Christophe Fergeau.
When compiling libvirt with GCC 3.4.6 the following warning is being triggered quite a lot:
util/memory.h:60: warning: declaration of 'remove' shadows a global declaration
/usr/include/stdio.h:175: warning: shadowed declaration is here
Fix this by renaming the parameter to 'toremove'.
* This patch implements a memory allocator to obtain memory for
structures whose last member is a variable length array. C99 refers
to these variable length objects as structs containing flexible
array members.
* Fixed macro parentheses per Eric Blake
