Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 06/12] register: Add block initialise helper

[Peter Maydell]

On 23 June 2016 at 18:29, Alistair Francis <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 5:55 AM, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
>> It's not clear to me which of these are input arguments to the
>> function, and which are things that the function initializes
>> (I think 'ri' is purely output?)
>
> The function expects everything to already be initialised, it just
> wires them up.
>
> ri should already be allocated, this function just sets up some pointers to 
> it.
>
> I added a comment in the description saying that ri and data must
> already be allocated. Is that enough?

Does the caller have to initialize the array that ri points to
before it calls this?

thanks
-- PMM