Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Introduce QEMU_NEW()

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

On 07/25/2011 03:51 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> qemu_malloc() is type-unsafe as it returns a void pointer.  Introduce
> QEMU_NEW() (and QEMU_NEWZ()), which return the correct type.

Just use g_new() and g_new0()

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>
> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity<avi@redhat.com>
> ---
>
> This is part of my memory API patchset, but doesn't really belong there.
>
>   qemu-common.h |    3 +++
>   1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/qemu-common.h b/qemu-common.h
> index ba55719..66effa3 100644
> --- a/qemu-common.h
> +++ b/qemu-common.h
> @@ -186,6 +186,9 @@ void qemu_free(void *ptr);
>   char *qemu_strdup(const char *str);
>   char *qemu_strndup(const char *str, size_t size);
>
> +#define QEMU_NEW(type) ((type *)(qemu_malloc(sizeof(type))))
> +#define QEMU_NEWZ(type) ((type *)(qemu_mallocz(sizeof(type))))
> +
>   void qemu_mutex_lock_iothread(void);
>   void qemu_mutex_unlock_iothread(void);
>