Update HACKING to refer to g_malloc instead of qemu_malloc
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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							@ -77,11 +77,11 @@ avoided.
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Use of the malloc/free/realloc/calloc/valloc/memalign/posix_memalign
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APIs is not allowed in the QEMU codebase. Instead of these routines,
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use the replacement qemu_malloc/qemu_mallocz/qemu_realloc/qemu_free or
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use the replacement g_malloc/g_malloc0/g_realloc/g_free or
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qemu_vmalloc/qemu_memalign/qemu_vfree APIs.
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Please note that NULL check for the qemu_malloc result is redundant and
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that qemu_malloc() call with zero size is not allowed.
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that g_malloc() call with zero size is not allowed.
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Memory allocated by qemu_vmalloc or qemu_memalign must be freed with
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qemu_vfree, since breaking this will cause problems on Win32 and user
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@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ int qemu_strnlen(const char *s, int max_len)
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There are also replacement character processing macros for isxyz and toxyz,
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so instead of e.g. isalnum you should use qemu_isalnum.
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Because of the memory management rules, you must use qemu_strdup/qemu_strndup
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Because of the memory management rules, you must use g_strdup/g_strndup
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instead of plain strdup/strndup.
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5. Printf-style functions
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