Expand palloc/pg_malloc API for more type safety This adds additional variants of palloc, pg_malloc, etc. that encapsulate common usage patterns and provide more type safety.
Specifically, this adds palloc_object(), palloc_array(), and repalloc_array(), which take the type name of the object to be allocated as its first argument and cast the return as a pointer to that type. There are also palloc0_object() and palloc0_array() variants for initializing with zero, and pg_malloc_*() variants of all of the above. Inspired by the talloc library. This is backpatched from master so that future backpatchable code can make use of these APIs. This patch by itself does not contain any users of these APIs. Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/bb755632-2a43-d523-36f8-a1e7a389a...@enterprisedb.com Branch ------ REL_10_STABLE Details ------- https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/2864f77556110529f294951382a8d67201244758 Modified Files -------------- src/include/common/fe_memutils.h | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ src/include/utils/palloc.h | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 50 insertions(+)
