Re: [Qemu-devel] question about qemu_malloc and friends in xxx-user/mmap.c

[Jean-Christophe Dubois]

Does anybody have an opinion on these topics?

JC

Le lundi 8 juin 2009 18:16:05 Jean-Christophe Dubois, vous avez écrit :
> Hi everybody,
>
> A little question about qemu_malloc(). There is one implementation that is
> heavily debated on the list. This implementation is for the main qemu part.
>
> However there are also alternative implementation in xxx-user/mmap.c files
> for example. These alternative implementations are not on par with the main
> implementation when it comes to the behavior. In particular it does not
> abort() on error for example. Is this perceived as a problem? Should all
> qemu_malloc() implementation have the same behavior (whatever is finally
> agreed upon on the list)?
>
> On the same kind of topic, these files do not offer some of the desired
> function. In particular there are no implementation of qemu_strdup() or
> qemu_strndud() and therefore the classical strdup() function is used in
> some files. Is this other issue perceived as another problem to solve?
>
> Thanks
>
> JC