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

[Avi Kivity]

Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> The idea to have allocators for arrays (and have them allow 
> zero-length arrays) is fine.  I wouldn't create two macros for new and 
> renew array, you can just use usual realloc semantics (ptr == NULL -> 
> alloc).
>
> Also I don't like the syntax that much as you'll have the IMHO 
> non-intuitive code like this:
>
>   QEMU_NEW_ARRAY(ptr, ...);
>
> instead of
>
>   ptr = QEMU_NEW_ARRAY(...);
>
> then.  I don't see another easy way to get the automagic sizeof(*ptr) 
> stuff done though.

I too would like to QEMU_NEW() and QEMU_NEW_ARRAY() like you propose (or 
even better, new and new[]).


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