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docs/devel/style: Mention alloca() family API is forbidden

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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>
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@ -446,8 +446,8 @@ Low level memory management
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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.