Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Permit zero-sized qemu_malloc() & friends

[Laurent Desnogues]

Hello,

probably a stupid remark, but I'll do it anyway :-)

Let's assume there are some contexts where doing a memory
allocation with a size of 0 is invalid while in some other contexts
it is valid.  Wouldn't it make sense in that case to have two
functions that do memory allocation?

Of course such a split would require full review of existing code
and might introduce complexities for instance for realloc (was
the original memory block allocated with a possible size of 0
or not?).


Laurent