Re: [PATCH 3/3] Use g_new() & friends where that makes obvious sense

[Peter Maydell]

On Mon, 14 Mar 2022 at 16:01, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> g_new(T, n) is neater than g_malloc(sizeof(T) * n).  It's also safer,
> for two reasons.  One, it catches multiplication overflowing size_t.
> Two, it returns T * rather than void *, which lets the compiler catch
> more type errors.
>
> This commit only touches allocations with size arguments of the form
> sizeof(T).
>
> Patch created mechanically with:
>
>     $ spatch --in-place --sp-file scripts/coccinelle/use-g_new-etc.cocci \
>              --macro-file scripts/cocci-macro-file.h FILES...
>
> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
> ---

>  104 files changed, 197 insertions(+), 202 deletions(-)

I'm not going to say you must split this patch up. I'm just going to
say that I personally am not looking at it, because it's too big
for me to deal with.

-- PMM