Re: [Qemu-devel] Block layer complexity: what to do to keep it under control?

[Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>]

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On Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 01:27:37PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 12/01/2017 11:03 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > Just my 2 cents on the language topic, as in general I agree completely
> > with Stefan.
> > 
> 
> > Luckily, several benefits don't require a full rewrite or language switch:
> > 
> > - readability from RAII-style code.  If this is important enough, we
> > could actually use GCC __attribute__((cleanup)) or, heaven forbid,
> > slowly introduce C++ in QEMU's code base.
> 
> This one is cool, and supported by both gcc and clang (and we really don't
> have any example of anyone clamoring for a different compiler). For example,
> here's what I recently added to nbdkit to make it MUCH easier to properly
> remember to unlock a mutex on all exit paths from a scope:
> 
> https://github.com/libguestfs/nbdkit/commit/0f24d66648
> https://github.com/libguestfs/nbdkit/commit/b5ab4835e1

Yes, please!  __attribute__((cleanup)) is great and we should use it in
QEMU.

I haven't looked at compiler support though... :)

Stefan

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