Don't both creating a GString to temporarily hold our qtest command. Instead do a simpler g_strndup and use autofree to clean up afterwards.
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> --- system/qtest.c | 20 ++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/system/qtest.c b/system/qtest.c index e68ed0f2a8..bb1efba9fd 100644 --- a/system/qtest.c +++ b/system/qtest.c @@ -763,25 +763,21 @@ static void qtest_process_command(CharBackend *chr, gchar **words) } } +/* + * Process as much of @inbuf as we can in newline terminated chunks. + * Remove the processed commands from @inbuf as we go. + */ static void qtest_process_inbuf(CharBackend *chr, GString *inbuf) { char *end; while ((end = strchr(inbuf->str, '\n')) != NULL) { - size_t offset; - GString *cmd; - gchar **words; - - offset = end - inbuf->str; + size_t len = end - inbuf->str; + g_autofree char *cmd = g_strndup(inbuf->str, len); + g_auto(GStrv) words = g_strsplit(cmd, " ", 0); - cmd = g_string_new_len(inbuf->str, offset); - g_string_erase(inbuf, 0, offset + 1); - - words = g_strsplit(cmd->str, " ", 0); + g_string_erase(inbuf, 0, len + 1); qtest_process_command(chr, words); - g_strfreev(words); - - g_string_free(cmd, TRUE); } } -- 2.39.5