Re: What is your opinion about init_malloc?

On 2025-03-14, Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> wrote:

What is your opinion about init_malloc?
One problem it solves it to initialise a const objects on heap.

I don't think it's that useful, because I would rather write a
type-specific allocating constructor:

  struct Mail *Mail_alloc(int id) { /* ... you know what goes here ... */ }

No games with macros and struct literals that we hope the
compiler optimizes away.

What can be useful is a strdup-like function for duplicating an existing binary
object (i.e. that was not just created and initialized in automatic storage
just for this purpose):

  void *memdup(const void *mem, size_t size);

which is like your init_malloc what you have as the basis of the macros.