Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Introduce QEMU_NEW()

Blue Swirl
2011-07-25T14:23:57Z

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws> wrote:
> On 07/25/2011 07:18 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
>>
>> On 07/25/2011 03:11 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>>
>>> On 07/25/2011 03:51 AM, 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.
>>>
>>> Just use g_new() and g_new0()
>>>
>>
>> These bypass qemu_malloc(). Are we okay with that?
>
> Yes.  We can just make qemu_malloc use g_malloc.

It would be also possible to make g_malloc() use qemu_malloc(). That
way we could keep the tracepoints which would lose their value with
g_malloc() otherwise.