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| author | Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> | 2011-12-15 13:33:54 +0000 |
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| committer | Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> | 2011-12-15 09:27:23 -0600 |
| commit | f603a687ff722e9df3e6e4730ca4e267aa2b124e (patch) | |
| tree | 86532467a81ef6829603589c0830240dca0e9ff9 /HACKING | |
| parent | db3a5ed7e4422491dac1f83264ebb01f6667ffc8 (diff) | |
HACKING: clarify allocation/free recommendations
Clarify the allocation/free recommendations; this is mostly
just tidying up following the global-search-and-replace done
with the conversion to the GLib g_malloc and friends.
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'HACKING')
| -rw-r--r-- | HACKING | 10 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -77,11 +77,13 @@ avoided. Use of the malloc/free/realloc/calloc/valloc/memalign/posix_memalign APIs is not allowed in the QEMU codebase. Instead of these routines, -use the replacement g_malloc/g_malloc0/g_realloc/g_free or -qemu_vmalloc/qemu_memalign/qemu_vfree APIs. +use the GLib memory allocation routines g_malloc/g_malloc0/g_new/ +g_new0/g_realloc/g_free or QEMU's qemu_vmalloc/qemu_memalign/qemu_vfree +APIs. -Please note that NULL check for the g_malloc result is redundant and -that g_malloc() call with zero size is not allowed. +Please note that g_malloc will exit on allocation failure, so there +is no need to test for failure (as you would have to with malloc). +Calling g_malloc with a zero size is valid and will return NULL. Memory allocated by qemu_vmalloc or qemu_memalign must be freed with qemu_vfree, since breaking this will cause problems on Win32 and user |