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Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 09:48:44 +0100
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Permit zero-sized qemu_malloc() & friends
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To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>

Am 05.12.2009 18:27, schrieb Anthony Liguori:
> If qemu_malloc() didn't carry the name "malloc()" then semantics with 
> size=0 would be a different discussion.  But so far, all qemu_* 
> functions tend to behave almost exactly like their C counterparts.  
> Relying on the result of size=0 with malloc() is broken.

Then let's rename it as qemu_getmem, do a sed run over the whole code
and have sane semantics. :-)

Kevin