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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 08:59 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> Avi Kivity wrote:
>>> My problem is with stable-0.12.  Consider upstream fixed.
>>>
>>> 1) Bug reported against qemu-0.12.0.
>>> 2) Developer writes patch against master, submits, all is well 
>>> except for the CODING_STYLE argument it triggers.
>>> 3) Developer writes patch against stable-0.12, can't test because 
>>> testing crashes in some place where production doesn't crash.
>>
>> Stable-0.12 always carries a VERSION of 0.12.x where x < 50.  This 
>> means that the stable-0.12 branch will always behave like a 
>> production release.
>>
>> You don't get -Werror on stable-0.XX and you won't get zero malloc()s 
>> assert.
>>
>
> That's good enough for me.  Allow 0 for 0.12 and new allocation 
> functions for mainline, then?
Yup.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori