[fedora-virt] [PATCH libguestfs] use xmalloc and xcalloc in generated code

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Thu Jul 2 22:26:38 UTC 2009


On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 12:19:48AM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > I think the patch is fine, but I generally wonder why we now have
> > functions which do the same thing called xmalloc and
> > [guestfs_]safe_malloc?
> 
> I've adjusted to use only safe_malloc and safe_calloc,
> instead of xmalloc and xcalloc.  With this, rebased against
> the latest, all tests pass and duration is 20m, much better than
> the recent 33m, yet slightly worse than pre-virtio time of 15m.

This will probably be because of:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=509383#c3

> [the patch]

+1

Rich.

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