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Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:09:18 -0600
From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Permit zero-sized qemu_malloc() & friends
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To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 12/07/2009 06:59 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> Avi Kivity wrote:
>>> What about developers that hit the assert?  Do they send patches 
>>> that fix code that works in production just so they can run in 
>>> developer mode?
>>
>> Sounds like a good way to get developers to help convert from 
>> qemu_malloc() to qemu_new*() :-)
>>
>
> In 0.12?
>
> My objection was to different behaviour of 0.12 in dev and production 
> modes.

It's a temporary problem that hopefully will be addressed quickly in the 
0.13 cycle.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori