Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Permit zero-sized qemu_malloc() & friends

[Avi Kivity]

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 ()).

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