Re: [PATCH 3/3] Use g_new() & friends where that makes obvious sense

[Markus Armbruster]

Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> writes:

> Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> writes:
>
>> g_new(T, n) is neater than g_malloc(sizeof(T) * n).  It's also safer,
>> for two reasons.  One, it catches multiplication overflowing size_t.
>> Two, it returns T * rather than void *, which lets the compiler catch
>> more type errors.
>>
> <snip>
>> diff --git a/semihosting/config.c b/semihosting/config.c
>> index 137171b717..6d48ec9566 100644
>> --- a/semihosting/config.c
>> +++ b/semihosting/config.c
>> @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ static int add_semihosting_arg(void *opaque,
>>      if (strcmp(name, "arg") == 0) {
>>          s->argc++;
>>          /* one extra element as g_strjoinv() expects NULL-terminated array 
>> */
>> -        s->argv = g_realloc(s->argv, (s->argc + 1) * sizeof(void *));
>> +        s->argv = g_renew(void *, s->argv, s->argc + 1);
>
> This did indeed break CI because s->argv is an array of *char:
>
> ../semihosting/config.c:101:17: error: assignment to ‘const char **’ from 
> incompatible pointer type ‘void **’ [-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types]
>   101 |         s->argv = g_renew(void *, s->argv, s->argc + 1);
>       |                 ^
> cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
>
> So it did the job of type checking but failed to build ;-)

You found a hole in my compile testing, thanks!

I got confused about the configuration of my build trees.  Catching such
mistakes is what CI is for :)