From 32ee080ccdde8a90d5ee3b56e28f95ada35dee4c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Philippe=20Mathieu-Daud=C3=A9?= Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2025 11:25:39 +0200 Subject: docs/devel/style: Mention alloca() family API is forbidden MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Suggested-by: Alex Bennée Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé Reviewed-by: Manos Pitsidianakis Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi Message-Id: <20250901132626.28639-4-philmd@linaro.org> --- docs/devel/style.rst | 4 ++-- 1 file 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. -- cgit v1.1