Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org> writes:
> Markus Armbruster <arm...@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 :)
