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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 1/9] lib: string_helpers: provide kfree_strarray()
On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 08:10:10AM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> From: Joe Perches
> > Sent: 28 September 2020 17:07
> >
> > On Mon, 2020-09-28 at 18:02 +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > > On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 5:59 PM Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 2020-09-28 at 12:41 +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > > > > From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
> > > > >
> > > > > There's a common pattern of dynamically allocating an array of char
> > > > > pointers and then also dynamically allocating each string in this
> > > > > array. Provide a helper for freeing such a string array with one call.
> > > >
> > > > Isn't this also common for things like ring buffers?
> > > > Why limit this to char *[]?
> > > >
> > >
> > > I don't want to add APIs nobody is using. What do you suggest?
> >
> > Change the argument to void** and call it
> >
> > void kfree_array(void **array, int count);
>
> Does help, void doesn't work that way.

Actually good catch. void * and void ** have a big difference in the implicit
casting behaviour. I was stumbled over this while playing with some
experimental stuff locally.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko


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