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| author | Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org> | 2025-06-10 11:25:39 +0200 |
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| committer | Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org> | 2025-09-02 17:57:01 +0200 |
| commit | 32ee080ccdde8a90d5ee3b56e28f95ada35dee4c (patch) | |
| tree | cf012ae02e838db320cbc1233e4db8982090dd47 | |
| parent | b8d6e05f16b77231d11b96659072b302290b3396 (diff) | |
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docs/devel/style: Mention alloca() family API is forbidden
Suggested-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Manos Pitsidianakis <manos.pitsidianakis@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20250901132626.28639-4-philmd@linaro.org>
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/devel/style.rst b/docs/devel/style.rst index d025933..941fe14 100644 --- a/docs/devel/style.rst +++ b/docs/devel/style.rst @@ -446,8 +446,8 @@ Low level memory management =========================== Use of the ``malloc/free/realloc/calloc/valloc/memalign/posix_memalign`` -APIs is not allowed in the QEMU codebase. Instead of these routines, -use the GLib memory allocation routines +or ``alloca/g_alloca/g_newa/g_newa0`` APIs is not allowed in the QEMU codebase. +Instead of these routines, use the GLib memory allocation routines ``g_malloc/g_malloc0/g_new/g_new0/g_realloc/g_free`` or QEMU's ``qemu_memalign/qemu_blockalign/qemu_vfree`` APIs. |