On 2012-06-08 14:34, Andreas Färber wrote:
> Am 08.06.2012 14:05, schrieb Igor Mammedov:
>> On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 11:11:11AM +0200, Andreas Färber wrote:
>>> Another factor that is making this slightly difficult is that there are
>>> three APIC subclasses. Currently they all have an instance_size of
>>> sizeof(APICCommonState) so it could be created in-place if it actually
>>> is a part (child<>) of the CPU wrt hot-plug. Creating objects with
>>> object_new() in QOM instance_init is forbidden.
>> Any particular reason why object_new() in intifn is not acceptable?
> 
> It allocates memory, which may fail. The initfn must not fail, the
> realizefn may return an Error object.

Since when do we fail gracefully on OOM again?

Jan

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