[PATCH] Introduce QEMU_NEW()

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qemu_malloc() is type-unsafe as it returns a void pointer.  Introduce
QEMU_NEW() (and QEMU_NEWZ()), which return the correct type.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx>
---

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);
 
-- 
1.7.5.3

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