On 1/9/25 16:05, Manos Pitsidianakis wrote:
On Mon, Sep 1, 2025 at 4:27 PM Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Suggested-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Reviewed-by: Manos Pitsidianakis <manos.pitsidianakis@xxxxxxxxxx>
docs/devel/style.rst | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/devel/style.rst b/docs/devel/style.rst
index d025933808e..941fe14bfd4 100644
--- a/docs/devel/style.rst
+++ b/docs/devel/style.rst
@@ -446,8 +446,8 @@ Low level memory management
===========================
Use of the ``malloc/free/realloc/calloc/valloc/memalign/posix_memalign``
-APIs is not allowed in the QEMU codebase. Instead of these routines,
-use the GLib memory allocation routines
+or ``alloca/g_alloca/g_newa/g_newa0`` APIs is not allowed in the QEMU codebase.
+Instead of these routines, use the GLib memory allocation routines
``g_malloc/g_malloc0/g_new/g_new0/g_realloc/g_free``
or QEMU's ``qemu_memalign/qemu_blockalign/qemu_vfree`` APIs.
--
If you wanna dust off your perl, you could also add this to checkpatch.pl :)
We expect contributors to test their patches before posting :P
(normally it shouldn't build due to -Walloca in the previous patch)
Thanks!
