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
