Use of `g_auto*` macros

[Simon Steinbeiss]

Hi Gaël!

Sorry for the late reply.
I guess I'm responsible for some of those macros in Xfce's codebase. At the
time I was not aware that only GCC and Clang could compile them, but as the
projects using them have been released and out there for a while my guess
would be that we don't worry too much about other compilers?

I found them convenient to use, that's all. So I don't have a strong
opinion here...

Cheers
Simon


On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 11:24 PM Gaël Bonithon <
trash.paradise at protonmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> It seems that only two projects use these macros at the moment: libxfce4ui
> and xfce4-settings. More precisely, they are g_autoptr() and g_autofree.
>
> I was wondering to what extent the use of these macros could be extended
> to other projects, or if it could be a problem, since only GCC and Clang
> can compile them.
>
> Do we have to worry about other compilers? Do you have any other comments
> on this subject?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Cheers,
> Gaël
>
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