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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] rocker: Use g_new() & friends where that makes
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Markus Armbruster |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] rocker: Use g_new() & friends where that makes obvious sense |
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Thu, 24 Sep 2015 18:18:43 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) |
Michael, could you take this one through trivial? Assuming Scott and
Jiri don't mind, and with s/patchas/patch as/ in the commit message.
Markus Armbruster <address@hidden> writes:
> 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.
>
> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <address@hidden>