Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 04/17] virtio-9p: Implement P9_TSTAT

[Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>]

> Is  there any reason (other than being coding style) in using qemu_free()
> instead of free()? As per qem-malloc.c qemu_free() is nothing but free().

The whole point of qemu_{malloc,free} is to isolate code from the system 
implementation of malloc/free. It's entirely possible that future versions of 
qemu_malloc will use a different memory allocation strategy.
 
> The reason I am asking is.. tracking string allocs become tricky
> if some of them were defined using qemu_alloc() and others are allocated
>  through sprintf().

sprintf does not allocate memory.
If you mean strdup, then you shouldn't be using that (use qemu_strdup).

Paul