On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 1:47 PM Pietro Gagliardi <andl...@lostsig.net>
wrote:
> Manual memory management is a part of life in the C world. defer is the
> solution that Go comes up with to situations where explicit cleanup is
> necessary, and it's a powerful tool that I'm pretty sure *is* an innovation
> Go did first.
>
Oh my, no. It's a wonderful thing, but it's essentially equivalent to
Lisp's UNWIND-PROTECT or (in the outward case) Scheme's dynamic-wind.
Thomas
> If you just follow the idiom
>
> cstr := C.CString(str)
> defer C.free(unsafe.Pointer(cstr))
>
> with nothing in between those two lines, then you won't have to worry
> about whether something gets cleaned up every time, because the answer is
> yes, it *will* get cleaned up every time! It's not like C anymore where you
> have to worry about making sure every code path frees only what is
> allocated on that code path, which means either juggling gotos or
> infinitely nesting ifs and possibly NULL checks everywhere.
>
> Stop trying to fight the language; start using it.
>
> If you are really prone to forgetting to free something somewhere, write a
> program using the go/... packages to do static analysis and evaluate the
> lifetime of C objects for yourself.
>
> On Oct 19, 2016, at 4:22 PM, andrew.sm...@miracl.com wrote:
>
> I thought someone might ask! Im writing many wrapper functions to C
> functions that take multiple C.char* arguments. All of these require a call
> to C.free() before the wrapper function terminates. I can do this with
> defer but Im absolutely sure Im going to miss one or more of these out. So
> I was wondering, if I could get hold of the defer list, then I could
> encapsulate the construction together with the defer in a function.
>
> e.g. roughly :
>
> func NewCString(s string, deferList List) *C.char {
> cs := C.CString(s)
> deferList.PushBack(func() { C.free(cs) }
> return cs
> }
>
> Then in an *imagined world* I could write my wrapper simply as :
>
> func wrapper(s1 string, s2 string, s3 string) {
> deferList := runtime.DeferList()
> return C.inner(NewCString(s1,deferList), NewCString(s2,deferList),
> NewCString(s2,deferList))
> }
>
> Basically, I cant seem to find a clean solution to ensure all these
> C.char* are 100% freed... swig allows me to wrap the C.char* with string,
> but swig is pretty awkward to use especially when wrapping the libraries I
> have. Im currently preferring cgo which seems much simpler and cleaner, but
> I dont have the equivalent of swigs typemaps to ensure all allocs are
> correctly freed... :o(
>
>
>
> On Wednesday, October 19, 2016 at 8:41:25 PM UTC+1, Pietro Gagliardi
> (andlabs) wrote:
>
> What do you want to do with it?
>
> On Oct 19, 2016, at 3:31 PM, andrew...@miracl.com wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> This is probably a long shot, but is it possible to get a reference to the
> list of functions that the 'defer' statement populates? Is it exposed
> and/or is it specific?
>
> Andy
>
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