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Re: [PATCH 0/3] More cleanup elimination / gdb::unique_ptr


I'm not sure whether patch #2 is just delayed, or whether it was too 
big for the list (172K on disk).  Meanwhile, I've force-pushed the 
series to the

 users/palves/cxx-eliminate-cleanups

branch.

Thanks,
Pedro Alves

On 10/10/2016 05:46 PM, Pedro Alves wrote:
> This patch series aims at removing more cleanups.
> 
> It eliminates ~90 out of the ~1800 make_cleanup calls left in the
> tree.
> 
> It also tries to answer the "which smart pointer?" question.  Many
> make_cleanup uses in the code base are best eliminated by using a
> "owning" smart pointer to manage ownership of the resource
> automatically.
> 
> We don't require C++11 yet, but OTOH, std::unique_ptr is quite nice.
> C++03 has std::auto_ptr, but, that's best avoided.  I'd also like to
> have a smart pointer that manages malloc'ed objects, so std::auto_ptr
> alone won't cut it.
> 
> The solution proposed by this series is a new gdb::unique_ptr smart
> pointer that is mapped to std::unique_ptr when compiling with a C++11
> compiler (really, just a template alias), and is a simple
> std::unique_ptr emulation when compiled with a C++03 compiler.
> 
> The patch series first adds the smart pointer to the tree, and then
> follows up with examples of C++fycation that use it, and more.
> 
> Series tested on:
> 
>  - NetBSD 5.1 (gcc70 on the compile farm), w/ gcc 4.1.3
>  - x86-64 Fedora 23, gcc 5.3.1 (gnu++03) native/gdbserver
>  - x86-64 Fedora 23, and gcc 7.0 (gnu++14)
> 
> Note that while the series' diffstat is practically a wash
> linecount-wise:
> 
>  87 files changed, 1450 insertions(+), 1429 deletions(-)
> 
> if we don't count the first patch, i.e., the new smart pointer, then
> we get:
> 
>  84 files changed, 1017 insertions(+), 1429 deletions(-)
> 
> So while there's a lot of churn, there's a significant drop in number
> of lines of code.
> 
> Pedro Alves (3):
>   Introduce gdb::unique_ptr
>   ui_file_xstrdup -> std::string
>   'struct parse_expression *' -> gdb::unique_ptr<expression>
> 
>  gdb/ada-lang.c                  |  83 +++------
>  gdb/ada-lang.h                  |   2 +-
>  gdb/ada-valprint.c              |  53 +++---
>  gdb/ada-varobj.c                | 130 ++++++--------
>  gdb/arm-tdep.c                  |   6 +-
>  gdb/ax-gdb.c                    |  15 +-
>  gdb/break-catch-sig.c           |   2 +-
>  gdb/break-catch-syscall.c       |   2 +-
>  gdb/break-catch-throw.c         |  26 +--
>  gdb/breakpoint.c                | 144 +++++++---------
>  gdb/breakpoint.h                |   8 +-
>  gdb/c-exp.y                     |   9 +-
>  gdb/c-lang.c                    |   9 +-
>  gdb/c-lang.h                    |   7 +-
>  gdb/c-typeprint.c               |   5 +-
>  gdb/c-varobj.c                  | 142 ++++++++--------
>  gdb/cli/cli-script.c            | 130 +++++---------
>  gdb/cli/cli-setshow.c           |   7 +-
>  gdb/common/common-defs.h        |   3 +
>  gdb/common/common-utils.c       |  31 ++++
>  gdb/common/common-utils.h       |   6 +
>  gdb/common/gdb_unique_ptr.h     | 363 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  gdb/common/safe-bool.h          |  67 ++++++++
>  gdb/compile/compile-c-support.c |   6 +-
>  gdb/compile/compile.c           |  70 ++++----
>  gdb/cp-abi.c                    |   2 +-
>  gdb/cp-abi.h                    |   7 +-
>  gdb/cp-support.c                |  60 +++----
>  gdb/cp-support.h                |  10 +-
>  gdb/dbxread.c                   |  22 +--
>  gdb/dtrace-probe.c              |   6 +-
>  gdb/dwarf2read.c                |  25 ++-
>  gdb/eval.c                      |  43 ++---
>  gdb/expression.h                |  12 +-
>  gdb/gdbarch.c                   |   8 +-
>  gdb/gdbarch.sh                  |   8 +-
>  gdb/gdbcmd.h                    |   2 +-
>  gdb/gdbtypes.c                  |  12 +-
>  gdb/gnu-v3-abi.c                |  55 ++----
>  gdb/guile/guile.c               |  18 +-
>  gdb/guile/scm-breakpoint.c      |   6 +-
>  gdb/guile/scm-disasm.c          |   6 +-
>  gdb/guile/scm-frame.c           |   6 +-
>  gdb/guile/scm-type.c            |  27 ++-
>  gdb/guile/scm-value.c           |  18 +-
>  gdb/infcmd.c                    |   9 +-
>  gdb/infrun.c                    |   6 +-
>  gdb/language.c                  |   7 +-
>  gdb/language.h                  |  14 +-
>  gdb/linespec.c                  |  53 +++---
>  gdb/location.c                  |  11 +-
>  gdb/location.h                  |   6 -
>  gdb/mi/mi-cmd-var.c             |  70 +++-----
>  gdb/mi/mi-main.c                |  41 ++---
>  gdb/minsyms.c                   |  17 +-
>  gdb/objc-lang.c                 |   7 +-
>  gdb/parse.c                     |  50 +++---
>  gdb/printcmd.c                  |  65 +++----
>  gdb/python/py-arch.c            |  10 +-
>  gdb/python/py-breakpoint.c      |   8 +-
>  gdb/python/py-frame.c           |   8 +-
>  gdb/python/py-type.c            |  10 +-
>  gdb/python/py-unwind.c          |   7 +-
>  gdb/python/py-value.c           |   7 +-
>  gdb/python/py-varobj.c          |   4 +-
>  gdb/python/python.c             |  19 +--
>  gdb/remote.c                    |  56 ++-----
>  gdb/rust-exp.y                  |  11 +-
>  gdb/rust-lang.c                 |  50 ++----
>  gdb/stabsread.c                 |  21 ++-
>  gdb/stack.c                     |   6 +-
>  gdb/symtab.c                    |  61 +++----
>  gdb/symtab.h                    |  19 ++-
>  gdb/top.c                       |  13 +-
>  gdb/tracepoint.c                | 143 +++++-----------
>  gdb/tracepoint.h                |  18 +-
>  gdb/typeprint.c                 |  21 +--
>  gdb/ui-file.c                   |  24 ++-
>  gdb/ui-file.h                   |   9 +-
>  gdb/ui-out.c                    |   9 +-
>  gdb/utils.c                     |   5 +-
>  gdb/value.c                     |   8 +-
>  gdb/value.h                     |   2 +-
>  gdb/varobj-iter.h               |   4 +-
>  gdb/varobj.c                    | 216 +++++++++++-------------
>  gdb/varobj.h                    |  66 ++++----
>  gdb/xtensa-tdep.c               |   9 +-
>  87 files changed, 1450 insertions(+), 1429 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 gdb/common/gdb_unique_ptr.h
>  create mode 100644 gdb/common/safe-bool.h
> 



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