On 12/04/2009 06:49 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
I still believe that it is poor practice to pass size==0 to *malloc(). I think actively discouraging this in qemu is a good thing because it's a broken idiom.
Why? Unless we have a separate array allocator (like C++'s new and new[]), we need to support zero-element arrays without pushing the burden to callers (in the same way that for () supports zero iteration loops without a separate if ()).
-- Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.
