librc: mark stringlist functions as mallocs

This gives a hint to the compiler that allocations (return values)
from this function should be paired with a corresponding dealloc/free
function

In this case, it means that every rc_stringlist that rc_stringlist_new()
returns should eventually be freed by calling rc_stringlist_free(ptr)
where ptr is the relevant rc_stringlist.

We have to add a test for this into the build system
because only GCC supports this for now. In future, we might
be able to use meson's has_function_attribute (it does support
'malloc', just not AFAICT 'malloc with arguments').

Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 11d146a5..e770eab0 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -182,6 +182,16 @@ cc_warning_flags = cc.get_supported_arguments(cc_warning_flags_test)
 cc_flags = [cc_debug_flags, cc_os_flags, cc_warning_flags]
 add_project_arguments(cc_flags, language : 'c')
 
+# Meson's has_function_attribute doesn't know about GCC's extended
+# version (with arguments), so we have to build a test program instead.
+malloc_attribute_test = '''#include<stdlib.h>
+__attribute__ ((malloc (free, 1)))
+int func() { return 0; }
+'''
+if cc.compiles(malloc_attribute_test, name : 'malloc attribute with arguments')
+  add_project_arguments('-DHAVE_MALLOC_EXTENDED_ATTRIBUTE', language: 'c')
+endif
+
 incdir = include_directories('src/shared')
 einfo_incdir = include_directories('src/libeinfo')
 rc_incdir = include_directories('src/librc')