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authorMurilo Opsfelder Araujo <muriloo@linux.ibm.com>2018-05-15 10:49:50 -0300
committerMichael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>2018-05-20 08:32:09 +0300
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HACKING: document preference for g_new instead of g_malloc
This patch documents the preference for g_new instead of g_malloc. The reasons were adapted from commit b45c03f585ea9bb1af76c73e82195418c294919d. Discussion in QEMU's mailing list: http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-05/msg03238.html Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> Cc: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Murilo Opsfelder Araujo <muriloo@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
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@@ -118,6 +118,15 @@ Please note that g_malloc will exit on allocation failure, so there
is no need to test for failure (as you would have to with malloc).
Calling g_malloc with a zero size is valid and will return NULL.
+Prefer g_new(T, n) instead of g_malloc(sizeof(T) * n) for the following
+reasons:
+
+ a. It catches multiplication overflowing size_t;
+ b. It returns T * instead of void *, letting compiler catch more type
+ errors.
+
+Declarations like T *v = g_malloc(sizeof(*v)) are acceptable, though.
+
Memory allocated by qemu_memalign or qemu_blockalign must be freed with
qemu_vfree, since breaking this will cause problems on Win32.