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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] arm: Use g_new() & friends where that makes obv
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Peter Maydell |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] arm: Use g_new() & friends where that makes obvious sense |
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Thu, 27 Aug 2015 17:33:14 +0100 |
On 25 August 2015 at 18:39, Markus Armbruster <address@hidden> wrote:
> g_new(T, n) is neater than g_malloc(sizeof(T) * n). It's also safer,
> for two reasons. One, it catches multiplication overflowing size_t.
> Two, it returns T * rather than void *, which lets the compiler catch
> more type errors.
>
> This commit only touches allocations with size arguments of the form
> sizeof(T).
Applied to target-arm.next, thanks.
-- PMM