Re: [PATCH 3/3] Use g_new() & friends where that makes obvious sense

[Markus Armbruster]

Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:

> On Mon, 14 Mar 2022 at 16:01, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> 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).
>>
>> Patch created mechanically with:
>>
>>     $ spatch --in-place --sp-file scripts/coccinelle/use-g_new-etc.cocci \
>>              --macro-file scripts/cocci-macro-file.h FILES...
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
>> ---
>
>>  104 files changed, 197 insertions(+), 202 deletions(-)
>
> I'm not going to say you must split this patch up. I'm just going to
> say that I personally am not looking at it, because it's too big
> for me to deal with.

As with all big but trivial Coccinelle patches, reviewing the Coccinelle
script and a reasonably representative sample of its output is almost
certainly a better use of reviewer time than attempting to get all the
patches reviewed.  They are mind-numbingly dull!

For what it's worth, we've used this script several times before.  Last
in commit bdd81addf4.