> > I wonder why we don't have type safe object allocators a-la new() in
> > C++ or g_new() in glib?
> >
> > fooptr = k_new(struct foo, GFP_KERNEL);
> >
> > is nicer and more descriptive than
> >
> > fooptr = kmalloc(sizeof(*fooptr), GFP_KERNEL);
> >...
>
> But it's much more likely to break when someone converts fooptr to a
> different struct.
>
> It might not be a common case but it sometimes happens - and your type
> safe variant introduces the possibility for really nasty bugs.
The compiler would emit a warning about assigning to a pointer of
different type. That's a fairly strong hint that something just
broke.
Miklos
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