On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 11:32 +0200, Alexander Graf wrote: > On 25.07.2011, at 10:51, Avi Kivity wrote: > > > qemu_malloc() is type-unsafe as it returns a void pointer. Introduce > > QEMU_NEW() (and QEMU_NEWZ()), which return the correct type. > > What does this buy you over > > type *x = qemu_malloc(sizeof(type)); > > ? I find the non-C++ version easier to read even.
It'll warn when you do silly things such as: struct some_struct *k; k = qemu_malloc(sizeof(k)); -- Sasha.
