Re: [PATCH] Introduce QEMU_NEW()

Sasha Levin
2011-07-25T09:37:47Z

On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 11:32 +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
> On 25.07.2011, at 10:51, Avi Kivity wrote:
>
> > qemu_malloc() is type-unsafe as it returns a void pointer. Introduce
> > QEMU_NEW() (and QEMU_NEWZ()), which return the correct type.
>
> What does this buy you over
>
> type *x = qemu_malloc(sizeof(type));
>
> ? I find the non-C++ version easier to read even.

It'll warn when you do silly things such as:

struct some_struct *k;

k = qemu_malloc(sizeof(k));

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Sasha.