Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] use qemu_malloc and friends consistently

[Jamie Lokier]

address@hidden wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
> 
> Thanks for pointing this. I guess it just sounds strange to me that
> somebody would want to alloc 0 bytes. But why not ...

Something that nobody pointed out is that sometimes you can have
zero-length structures these days.  E.g. if you have a struct
containing a few spinlocks in the Linux kernel, it will be zero length
when built on UP targets.  I doubt if QEMU has any such structures,
but it's the sort of thing that shouldn't break
qemu_malloc(sizeof(some_type)).

-- Jamie