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Diffstat (limited to 'HACKING')
| -rw-r--r-- | HACKING | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -77,11 +77,11 @@ avoided. Use of the malloc/free/realloc/calloc/valloc/memalign/posix_memalign APIs is not allowed in the QEMU codebase. Instead of these routines, -use the replacement qemu_malloc/qemu_mallocz/qemu_realloc/qemu_free or +use the replacement g_malloc/g_malloc0/g_realloc/g_free or qemu_vmalloc/qemu_memalign/qemu_vfree APIs. Please note that NULL check for the qemu_malloc result is redundant and -that qemu_malloc() call with zero size is not allowed. +that g_malloc() call with zero size is not allowed. Memory allocated by qemu_vmalloc or qemu_memalign must be freed with qemu_vfree, since breaking this will cause problems on Win32 and user @@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ int qemu_strnlen(const char *s, int max_len) There are also replacement character processing macros for isxyz and toxyz, so instead of e.g. isalnum you should use qemu_isalnum. -Because of the memory management rules, you must use qemu_strdup/qemu_strndup +Because of the memory management rules, you must use g_strdup/g_strndup instead of plain strdup/strndup. 5. Printf-style functions |
