Re: [Qemu-devel] [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.
>>>>>
>>>>> Just use g_new() and g_new0()
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> These bypass qemu_malloc(). Are we okay with that?
>>>
>>> Yes.  We can just make qemu_malloc use g_malloc.
>>
>> It would be also possible to make g_malloc() use qemu_malloc(). That
>> way we could keep the tracepoints which would lose their value with
>> g_malloc() otherwise.
>
> Or just add tracepoints to g_malloc()...
>
> But yeah, the point is, we ought to unify to a standard library function
> instead of inventing our own version of everything.

What about zero-size allocations for which g_malloc would return NULL?

-- 
Thanks.
-- Max
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