Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Permit zero-sized qemu_malloc() & friends

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

On 12/07/2009 05:50 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>
> While it's always fun to argue about standards interpretation, I 
> wanted to capture some action items from the discussion that I think 
> there is agreement about.  Since I want to make changes for 0.12, I 
> think it would be best to try and settle these now so we can do this 
> before -rc2.
>
> For 0.12.0-rc2:
>
> I will send out a patch tonight or tomorrow changing qemu_malloc() to 
> return malloc(1) when size=0 only for production builds (via 
> --enable-zero-mallocs).  Development trees will maintain their current 
> behavior.
>

Since active development is ceasing on 0.12, I'd suggest not having 
separate behaviour for devel and production.  Do we want patches for 
n==0 array allocations at this time?

I'd really like to see Markus' patch applied.

> For 0.13:
>
> Someone (Marcus?) will introduce four new allocation functions.
>
> type *qemu_new(type, n_types);
> type *qemu_new0(type, n_types);
>
> type *qemu_renew(type, mem, n_types);
> type *qemu_renew0(type, mem, n_types);
>

I'd like to see separate functions for arrays and single objects, to 
avoid ", 1)" everywhere.

   qemu_new()
   qemu_new0()

   qemu_new_array()
   qemu_new_array0()
   qemu_renew_array()
   qemu_renew_array0()

In addition, Markus' patch should be applied to master to avoid 
regressions while the code is converted.

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