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

[Anthony Liguori]

On 07/25/2011 06:11 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> #define QEMU_NEW_MULTI(type, len) ((type *)(qemu_mallocz(sizeof(type) * len)))
>
> char *arr = QEMU_NEW_MULTI(char, 1024);
>
> > Still not covered: allocating a struct with a variable-size array as
> > final member.  I guess a solution for that can be found if we care
> > enough.
>
> Yeah, but at the end of the day I'd assume most of us know C and can just open 
> code this all, no?

While it's always fun to reinvent things, glib has already solved all of 
this and we're already dependent on it in the build:

http://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-Memory-Allocation.html

It also has fancy ways to hook memory allocation for debugging.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Alex