Re: PATCH: two slab-like memory allocators

On 2016-11-27 22:21:49 +0100, Petr Jelinek wrote:
> On 27/11/16 21:47, Andres Freund wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >>> +typedef struct SlabBlockData *SlabBlock; /* forward reference */
> >>> +typedef struct SlabChunkData *SlabChunk;
> >>>
> >>> Can we please not continue hiding pointers behind typedefs? It's a bad
> >>> pattern, and that it's fairly widely used isn't a good excuse to
> >>> introduce further usages of it.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Why is it a bad pattern?
> >
> > It hides what is passed by reference, and what by value, and it makes it
> > a guessing game whether you need -> or . since you don't know whether
> > it's a pointer or the actual object. All to save a * in parameter and
> > variable declaration?...
> >
>
> FWIW I don't like that pattern either although it's used in many parts
> of our code-base.

But relatively few new ones, most of it is pretty old.