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[RFC,v5,62/86] Introduce QEMU_NEW()

Message ID 1311180636-17012-63-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com
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Avi Kivity July 20, 2011, 4:50 p.m. UTC 
qemu_malloc() is type-unsafe as it returns a void pointer.  Introduce
QEMU_NEW() (and QEMU_NEWZ()), which return the correct type.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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 qemu-common.h |    3 +++
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/qemu-common.h b/qemu-common.h
index c2b79bd..e5a70d5 100644
--- a/qemu-common.h
+++ b/qemu-common.h
@@ -209,6 +209,9 @@  void qemu_free(void *ptr);
 char *qemu_strdup(const char *str);
 char *qemu_strndup(const char *str, size_t size);
 
+#define QEMU_NEW(type) ((type *)(qemu_malloc(sizeof(type))))
+#define QEMU_NEWZ(type) ((type *)(qemu_mallocz(sizeof(type))))
+
 void qemu_mutex_lock_iothread(void);
 void qemu_mutex_unlock_iothread(void);