From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [6412] linux-user: add qemu_realloc() implementation to unbreak the build ( Gerd Hoffman)
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:52:34 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200901231852.35416.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4979F1E3.2050701@codemonkey.ws>
> > Is it really the correct fix? The original error comes from the fact
> > we compile qemu_iovec_* in cutils.c. Do we really need these
> > iovec functions for user-mode?
>
> I think the better question is, why isn't linux-user sharing
> qemu_malloc/qemu_realloc implementations with the system emulation?
Because userspace emulation has special requirements, and need to keep track
of address space usage. You can't just blindly use malloc/mmap.
Paul
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-23 18:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-23 15:02 [Qemu-devel] [6412] linux-user: add qemu_realloc() implementation to unbreak the build ( Gerd Hoffman) Anthony Liguori
2009-01-23 15:38 ` Laurent Desnogues
2009-01-23 16:35 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-01-23 17:15 ` Laurent Desnogues
2009-01-23 18:52 ` Paul Brook [this message]
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