Re: g_autoptr(Error)

[Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>]

Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:

> On Wed, 26 Nov 2025 at 12:01, Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
>> The other thing that plays in here is that we actively encourage use of
>> g_autoptr everywhere. It is very unusual for "Error" to be a type that
>> does NOT want g_autoptr, and thus the mistake is very much on the cards.
>>
>> I've proposed it before myself & Markus caught it. I also caught one
>> other proposals to add it since my attempt. This third time it slipped
>> through review. I expect we'll see a 4th attempt to add it at some point.
>
> We could add a comment to the header explaining the rationale for
> not providing a g_autoptr handler, so that at least we have it
> written down, and are more likely to remember it when it comes
> up again in future...

Good idea.  I'll take care of it.