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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] rocker: Use g_new() & friends where that makes


From: Jiri Pirko
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] rocker: Use g_new() & friends where that makes obvious sense
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 13:57:36 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12)

Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 01:52:23PM CEST, 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).  Same Coccinelle semantic patchas in commit b45c03f.

                                           ^ typo :)


Other than that:

Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <address@hidden>





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