From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, sdb@zubnet.me.uk
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/5] Convert calls to g_malloc() using casts to g_new()
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 10:55:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E9FE20A.5020000@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1319097820-4788-1-git-send-email-sdb@zubnet.me.uk>
On 10/20/2011 10:03 AM, Stuart Brady wrote:
> Convert calls to g_malloc() and g_malloc0() to g_new() and g_new0()
> respectively, in cases where the return value is casted to the same
> type as specified using sizeof() in the parameter to g_malloc() and
> assigned to a variable of that type.
This is likely to cause conflicts all over the place, and now is a very
bad time to do so :( because people are trying to get their patches in
during the soft feature freeze. I don't oppose the change, just the timing.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-20 8:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-20 8:03 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/5] Convert calls to g_malloc() using casts to g_new() Stuart Brady
2011-10-20 8:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/5] Convert use of ptr = g_malloc(sizeof(*ptr)) " Stuart Brady
2011-10-20 8:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/5] Convert use of ptr = g_malloc(sizeof(type)) " Stuart Brady
2011-10-20 8:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/5] Convert remaining calls to g_malloc(sizeof(type)) using casts " Stuart Brady
2011-10-20 8:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/5] Convert remaining calls to g_malloc(sizeof(type)) " Stuart Brady
2011-10-20 9:05 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-10-21 0:26 ` Stuart Brady
2011-10-21 7:37 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-10-21 17:56 ` Stuart Brady
2011-10-23 13:45 ` Blue Swirl
2011-10-20 8:55 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2011-10-21 0:34 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/5] Convert calls to g_malloc() using casts " Stuart Brady
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