Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] use qemu_malloc and friends consistently

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

David Turner wrote:
>
> The first version will extract the item size automatically for you, 
> making it less likely that you screw things in the second version's 
> parameter list.
> But I'm not going to fight against it.
>
> Also, my code is usually a lot more aggressive than what I proposed. I 
> don't want to burn too many cycles on this, just stating that,
> generally speaking, it is possible to use macros/wrappers to both make 
> the code's intent more clear and reduce potential errors.

There's no need to reinvent a programming language in macros.  If we 
feel that type safety is a good thing, we should switch to a language 
that supports it.

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