Subject: Re: Adjusting further size determinations?

From: Joe Perches <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 04:49:43 -0700

On Wed, 2017-10-18 at 13:00 +0200, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> > Ugly grep follows:
> > 
> > $ grep -rohP --include=*.[ch] "\w+\s*=\s*[kv].alloc\s*\(\s*sizeof.*," * | \
> >   sed -r -e 's/(\w+)\s*=\s*[kv].alloc\s*\(\s*sizeof\s*\(\s*\*\s*\1\s*\)/foo = k.alloc(sizeof(*foo))/' \
> >          -e 's/(\w+)\s*=\s*[kv].alloc\s*\(\s*sizeof\s*\(\s*struct\s+\w+\s*\)/foo = k.alloc(sizeof(struct foo))/' | \
> >   sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -2
> >    6123 foo = k.alloc(sizeof(*foo)),
> >    3060 foo = k.alloc(sizeof(struct foo)),
> 
> Would you like to get this ratio changed in any ways?

No.

> Available development tools could help to improve the software situation
> in a desired direction, couldn't they?
> > > Unpleasant consequences are possible in both cases.
> How much do you care to reduce the failure probability further?

Zero.

The alloc style is trivially useful for new code.
Existing code doesn't need change.