Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch] add byteordered types

[Anthony Liguori]

Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>   
> > Personally, I dislike the whole struct thing.  I even further dislike
> > having multiple sets of conversion functions that are used in different
> > places in the code.
> >
> > Are we sure that this is something that we want to do?
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> As far I know this struct trick is the only way to have gcc check access
> to variables with an specific byteorder is done the correct way.  Avi
> sguuested that and I also think this checking would be useful.  I could
> live without that though if there is an agreement that we'll just stick
> with the current, unchecked cpu_to_<order><size> functions.
>   

Yeah, AFAIK, it's the only way to enforce this sort of thing but it's 
also ugly.  If we were starting from scratch, I could see the value in 
it but there's already a ton of code that's not going to be using this 
mechanism that noone is going to convert.  That makes me think there 
isn't going to be a lot of value in it and will lead to a lot of overall 
confusion.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> cheers,
>   Gerd
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