[PATCH] Add a miniobj macro for pointer acquisitions

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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In message <CABoVN9COqLsa72X4Qa-=ft7eqNUbsDiBY2e3fBbzLQQkSFUEDA at mail.gmail.com>, Dridi Boukelmoune writes:

>In this evening's offline self-hackathon in the train I came up with a
>macro for a recurring pattern in Varnish Cache that I also happen to
>use in at least one VMOD so it might benefit others too.

I agree that we should beautify this pattern, but I can't get used
to the word "ACQUIRE" for it, particular because we are inside a
"release" functionality.

Could we call it "TAKE_OBJ_NOTMULL()" ?

That matches what we are doing to the object reference much better.

I think TAKEOVER_OBJ_NOTNULL() would be too clunky?


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