docs/devel/style: Mention alloca() family API is forbidden Suggested-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Manos Pitsidianakis <manos.pitsidianakis@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20250901132626.28639-4-philmd@linaro.org>
diff --git a/docs/devel/style.rst b/docs/devel/style.rst index d025933..941fe14 100644 --- a/docs/devel/style.rst +++ b/docs/devel/style.rst
@@ -446,8 +446,8 @@ =========================== 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.