Safely remove malloc in SystemC

[sumit_tuwien]

We have discovered C-style dynamic memory allocation in following files:

 

   utils/sc_report.cpp
   utils/sc_hash.cpp
   utils/sc_report_handler.cpp
   utils/sc_mempool.cpp

 

 

However, dynamic memory allocation for other C++ files have been done using C++ style new/delete.

 

Our question: Can we replace them safely with new/delete or we will see some surprises ?

 

In fact it seems they are legacy codes taken from somewhere and we can replace them safely. Example (utils/sc_report.cpp)

 

 

 

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static char empty_str[] = "";
static inline char * empty_dup(const char * p)
{
    if ( p && *p )
    {
        char* result;
        result = (char*)malloc(strlen(p)+1); // Very very legacy C style
        strcpy(result, p);
        return result;
    }
    else
    {
        return empty_str;
    }
}


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Regards, Sumit