I'm looking for an annotation something like
-(SomeStruct *) structFromInternals __attribute__((returns_malloced_ptr))
{
SomeStruct *ret = malloc(sizeof(SomeStruct));
//do stuff
return ret;
}
to soothe the clang static analyzer beasts.
The only viable attributes link I can find is for GCC, but it doesn't even include ns_returns_retained
, which is in an extension, I assume.
EDIT:
as to why this is needed, I have a scenario that I can't repro in a simple case, so it may have to do with a c lib in an Objective-C project... The gist is, I get a static analyzer warning that the malloc in createStruct is leaked:
typedef struct{
void * data;
size_t len;
}MyStruct;
void destroyStruct(MyStruct * s)
{
if (s && s->data) {
free(s->data);
}
if (s) {
free(s);
}
}
MyStruct * createStructNoCopy(size_t len, void * data)
{
MyStruct * retStruct = malloc(sizeof(MyStruct));
retStruct->len = len;
retStruct->data = data;
return retStruct;
}
MyStruct * createStruct(size_t len, void * data)
{
char * tmpData = malloc(len);
memcpy(tmpData, data, len);
return createStructNoCopy(len, tmpData);
}
MyStruct * copyStruct(MyStruct * s)
{
return createStruct(s->len, s->data);
}