Use of `g_auto*` macros

[Gaël Bonithon]

Hi Simon,

Thank you for responding! I thought my email was going to get lost in the August dustbin, so I opened a new issue on xfce4-dev-tools soon after (which I should have done from the start ^^):
https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-dev-tools/-/issues/52

So I propose to continue the discussion there for anyone interested.

Cheers,
Gaël

‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
On Sunday, September 5th, 2021 at 9:16 PM, Simon Steinbeiss <simon at xfce.org> wrote:

> 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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