Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch] replace all strdup() with g_strdup()

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

On 12/16/2011 09:07 AM, Jun Koi wrote:
> This patch replaces all the strdup() with g_strdup()
>
> Signed-off-by: Jun Koi<junkoi2004@gmail.com>
>
> $ diffstat strdup.diff
>   cmd.c               |    4 ++--
>   envlist.c           |    6 +++---
>   exec.c              |    2 +-
>   hw/isa-bus.c        |    2 +-
>   hw/pc.c             |    2 +-
>   hw/pci.c            |    2 +-
>   hw/qdev.c           |    2 +-
>   hw/scsi-bus.c       |    2 +-
>   hw/sun4m.c          |    6 +++---
>   hw/sun4u.c          |    2 +-
>   hw/usb-msd.c        |    2 +-
>   hw/virtio-blk.c     |    2 +-
>   ia64-dis.c          |    2 +-
>   microblaze-dis.c    |   18 +++++++++---------
>   path.c              |    2 +-
>   readline.c          |    2 +-
>   test-qmp-commands.c |   12 ++++++------
>   17 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)

You cannot do this unless you also convert all free to g_free.  So you 
also cannot do this when you are passing strings to libraries that take 
ownership of the strings.  A search-and-replace conversion is not possible.

Paolo