[LTP] [PATCH v3 1/2] lib: TST_EXP_FAIL_PTR

[Cyril Hrubis]

Hi!
> +#define TST_EXP_FAIL_SILENT_PTR_(SCALL, SSCALL, ERRNOS, ERRNOS_CNT, ...)       \
> +	do {                                                                   \
> +		TESTPTR(SCALL);                                                \
> +		                                                               \
> +		TST_PASS = 0;                                                  \
> +		                                                               \
> +		if (TST_RET_PTR) {                                             \

Unfortunatelly there are two types of calls, one returns NULL on a
failure and the second returns (void *)-1, from the top of my head these
are mmap(), shmat() and possibly other memory related syscalls.

So I suppose that this macro needs another parameter for the actual
value that is returned on a failure:

#define TST_EXP_FAIL_SILENT_PTR_(SCALL, SSCALL, FAIL_PTR_VAL, ERRNOS, ...)
	do {
		TESTPTR(SCALL);

		...

		if (TST_RET_PTR == FAILPTR_VAL) {
		...


The hard question is if we want to pass this parameter explicitly from the
macros used by the tests, i.e. if each test would need to specify a
FAIL_PTR_VAL or if we want to pass it in the macros, but that would mean
that the number of macros will explode again and we would have to figure
out a good names. So maybe it would be easier to pass them from each
test.

-- 
Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz