Re: [PATCH for-8.2 0/2] ppc: get rid of free() (gitlab #1798)

[Peter Maydell]

On Fri, 28 Jul 2023 at 21:57, Daniel Henrique Barboza
<danielhb413@gmail.com> wrote:
> Here's some trivial changes following Peter's call to arms against
> free() and friends in gitlab issue #1798 in an attempt to enforce
> our memory management guidelines [1].

To clarify, this isn't a "call to arms". The issue is marked up as
a "bite-sized task", which is to say that it's a potential easy
place to start for newcomers to the community who might be making
their first contribution to the codebase. The changes it suggests
aren't urgent; at most they're a nice-to-have, since glib
guarantees that you can mix malloc/free and g_malloc/g_free.

We've had this sitting around as a suggestion on the wiki page
for bite-sized-tasks for years, and occasionally people come
through and have a go at it. I wanted to clean up and expand
on the description of what we had in mind for the change, to
give those people a better chance of successfully completing
the task.

thanks
-- PMM