On 07/25/2011 09:30 AM, Max Filippov wrote:
qemu_malloc() is type-unsafe as it returns a void pointer. Introduce
QEMU_NEW() (and QEMU_NEWZ()), which return the correct type.
Just use g_new() and g_new0()
These bypass qemu_malloc(). Are we okay with that?
Yes. We can just make qemu_malloc use g_malloc.
It would be also possible to make g_malloc() use qemu_malloc(). That
way we could keep the tracepoints which would lose their value with
g_malloc() otherwise.
Or just add tracepoints to g_malloc()...
But yeah, the point is, we ought to unify to a standard library function
instead of inventing our own version of everything.
What about zero-size allocations for which g_malloc would return NULL?
Using a standard, well documented, rich interface trumps any arguments
about the semantics of zero-sized allocation.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
