Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Introduce QEMU_NEW()

[Alexander Graf]

On 25.07.2011, at 11:37, Sasha Levin wrote:

> On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 11:32 +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
>> On 25.07.2011, at 10:51, Avi Kivity wrote:
>> 
>>> qemu_malloc() is type-unsafe as it returns a void pointer.  Introduce
>>> QEMU_NEW() (and QEMU_NEWZ()), which return the correct type.
>> 
>> What does this buy you over
>> 
>> type *x = qemu_malloc(sizeof(type));
>> 
>> ? I find the non-C++ version easier to read even.
> 
> It'll warn when you do silly things such as:
> 
> struct some_struct *k;
> 
> k = qemu_malloc(sizeof(k));

Hm - is there any way to get this without adding upper case C++'ish macros?


Alex