[asterisk-dev] backport RAII_VAR to 1.8?

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 3:44 PM, Paul Belanger
<paul.belanger at polybeacon.com> wrote:
> On 13-05-17 01:54 PM, Russell Bryant wrote:
>>
>> The size of this backport is tiny.  It's a small macro.  It's just
>> incredibly useful and actually helps write code less likely to contain
>> errors.
>>
>> If it's a problem, it shouldn't be *too* hard to pull it back out.  The
>> difficultly comes with however many places you have started using it.  In
>> my case, it's in the SLA code, so it's a pretty small fraction of the code
>> base.  If it gets backported, explodes through the 1.8 code, and then a
>> problem is found 6 months later, that would be much more painful.  I
>> wouldn't expect it to spread too fast in 1.8, since the changes are
>> intentionally minimal.  It just might make fixing some bugs easier.
>>
>> Compiler version impact is worth considering.  I don't know what the
>> specific impact is in terms of distro support, though.  How about we
>> assume
>> it's ok, and if there's an uproar, I agree to do the work to revert the
>> usage I added.
>>
> For me it comes down to impact, I admit I know nothing about RAII_VAR, so if
> only SLA I agree it should be fine.

Since clang is the default on Mac OS X, you're essentially suggesting
the end of simple support for Asterisk on the Mac.  I don't know if
that's desireable, especially in the middle of a release cycle.