Re: [Qemu-devel] some questions about g_malloc in qemu

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 11:02:39AM +0100, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 15.12.2011 10:36, schrieb Stefan Hajnoczi:
> > On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 04:28:28PM +0800, 陳韋任 wrote:
> >>  I found this in HACKING:
> >>
> >>   Please note that NULL check for the g_malloc result is redundant and
> >>   that g_malloc() call with zero size is not allowed.
> > 
> > So we have:
> > 
> > 1. You should not request 0 bytes from g_malloc().
> 
> I think this was related to qemu_malloc() and Anthony's sed run made it
> refer to g_malloc(), even though it works just fine with 0 bytes. We
> should probably remove this sentence.

If you remove it then you can't interpret it the way I did.  It's not
longer possible to say that g_malloc() never returns NULL.  You always
have to qualify that with "unless you ask for 0 bytes". :)

Stefan