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Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:12:24 -0600
From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/7] Introduce hard dependency on glib
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To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>, Arun Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, Paulo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

On 01/26/2011 03:23 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
>
> Both g_malloc() and g_try_malloc() are available where g_try_malloc()
> returns NULL on failure.  g_malloc() matches qemu_malloc() exit
> behavior today but in the future it would be possible to use
> g_try_malloc() for proper out-of-memory handling.
>
> But I think you're pointing out that glib uses g_malloc() internally.
> That is a design flaw and basically makes g_try_malloc() useless.
>    

No.  glib cannot be used for applications that want to handle malloc() 
robustly.

But I've never met an application that does so it doesn't really bother me.

Regards,

Anthony LIguori

> Stefan
>