On Sun, 17 Jun 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > macro that behaves like `new' in C++:
> > | #define knew(type, flags) (type *)kmalloc(sizeof(type), (flags))
> >
> > If the types in the assignment don't match, gcc will tell you.
>
> Well, since we are still beating this one to death, I'd written a "knew"
> macro as well, and put it aside. It does the assignment for you too:
>
> #define knew(p) ((p) = (typeof(p)) kmalloc(sizeof(*(p)), GFP_KERNEL))
> Terse and clear at the same time, and type safe. I still don't like it much.
And ungreppable, not to mention gratitious use of GNU extension.
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