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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] trivial malloc to g_malloc in thunk
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Peter Maydell |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] trivial malloc to g_malloc in thunk |
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Thu, 28 Feb 2019 14:26:19 +0000 |
On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 at 14:00, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On 2/28/19 7:42 AM, Aarushi Mehta wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > This is a trivial contribution part of the BiteSizedTasks on the wiki.
> > I found this discussion
> > http://git.corpit.ru/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=b45c03f585ea9bb1af76c73e82195418c294919d
> > on migrating even g_malloc to g_new, is this not appropriate for the same?
> > The wiki can presumably use an update regarding this.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Aarushi <address@hidden>
> > ---
> > thunk.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/thunk.c b/thunk.c
> > index d5d8645cd4..03fb2abab7 100644
> > --- a/thunk.c
> > +++ b/thunk.c
> > @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ void thunk_register_struct(int id, const char *name,
> > const argtype *types)
> > for(i = 0;i < 2; i++) {
> > offset = 0;
> > max_align = 1;
> > - se->field_offsets[i] = malloc(nb_fields * sizeof(int));
> > + se->field_offsets[i] = g_malloc(nb_fields * sizeof(int));
>
> Where is the counterpart free() that needs to be changed to g_free()?
There is none, because this code sets up a data structure at
startup which then lasts for the lifetime of the QEMU process.
This is definitely worth noting in the commit message.
thanks
-- PMM