Add memory management rules, somewhat like libvirt HACKING. Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwir...@gmail.com> --- CODING_STYLE | 8 ++++++++ 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/CODING_STYLE b/CODING_STYLE index 3f10d72..085c86f 100644 --- a/CODING_STYLE +++ b/CODING_STYLE @@ -148,3 +148,11 @@ up-front that this is a read-only pointer. Perhaps more importantly, if we're diligent about this, when you see a non-const pointer, you're guaranteed that it is used to modify the storage it points to, or it is aliased to another pointer that is. + + +7. Low level memory management + +Use of the malloc/free/realloc/calloc APIs is not allowed in the QEMU +codebase. Instead of these routines, use the replacement +qemu_malloc/qemu_mallocz/qemu_realloc/qemu_free or +qemu_vmalloc/qemu_memalign/qemu_vfree APIs. -- 1.6.2.4
