Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/4] docs: document use of automatic cleanup functions in glib

[Eric Blake]

On 8/23/19 11:39 AM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> Document the use of g_autofree and g_autoptr in glib for automatic
> freeing of memory, or other resource cleanup (eg mutex unlocking).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <address@hidden>
> ---
>  CODING_STYLE.md | 101 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 101 insertions(+)


> +The cleanup functions are not restricted to simply free'ing memory. The
> +GMutexLocker class is a variant of GMutex that has automatic locking and
> +unlocking at start and end of the enclosing scope
> +
> +In the following example, the `lock` in `MyObj` will be held for the
> +precise duration of the `somefunc` function
> +
> +    typedef struct {
> +        GMutex lock;
> +    } MyObj;
> +
> +    char *somefunc(MyObj *obj) {
> +        g_autofree GMutexLocker *locker = g_mutex_locker_new(&obj->lock)

Wrong example (you don't want to call g_free, and you missed ';'). This
should be

g_autoptr (GMutexLocker) locker = g_mutex_locker_new(&obj->lock);

With that fixed,

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>

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Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
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