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* [PATCH] tools: libxl: CODING_STYLE: GC* cannot be used with NOGC
@ 2015-10-16 10:33 Ian Campbell
  2015-10-16 10:39 ` Wei Liu
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Ian Campbell @ 2015-10-16 10:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: ian.jackson, wei.liu2, xen-devel; +Cc: Ian Campbell

GC* assume an existing gc in scope, which means they can't be passed
NOGC. Instead recommend the use of the underlying functions with NOGC,
noting that this is excepitonal.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
---
 tools/libxl/CODING_STYLE | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/libxl/CODING_STYLE b/tools/libxl/CODING_STYLE
index a65efb3..545dc77 100644
--- a/tools/libxl/CODING_STYLE
+++ b/tools/libxl/CODING_STYLE
@@ -57,13 +57,14 @@ whenever they are applicable.  For example:
   libxl__log[v]           LOG, LOGE, LOGEV
   libxl__sprintf          GCSPRINTF
   libxl__*alloc et al.    GCNEW, GCNEW_ARRAY, GCREALLOC_ARRAY
-  malloc et al.           GCNEW, GCNEW_ARRAY, GCREALLOC_ARRAY with NOGC
   isalnum etc. directly   CTYPE
   libxl__ctx_[un]lock     CTX_LOCK, CTX_UNLOCK
   gc=...; ao=...;         EGC_GC, AO_GC, STATE_AO_GC
   explicit gc creation    GC_INIT, GC_FREE
   memset(..,0,sizeof..)   FILLZERO
 
+Instead of malloc et al one should (as an exception to the above) use
+libxl__{zalloc,alloc,realloc} etc but passing NOGC.
 
 ERROR HANDLING
 --------------
-- 
2.5.3

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