Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Separate function types from opaque types in include/qemu/typedefs.h

[Juan Quintela]

Greg Kurz <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Jun 2017 17:14:08 +0100
> Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> On 22 June 2017 at 17:06, Greg Kurz <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > Function types cannot reside in the same sorted list as opaque types since
>> > they may depend on a type which would be defined later.
>> >
>> > Of course, the same problem could arise if a function type depends on
>> > another function type with greater alphabetical order. Hopefully we
>> > don't have that at this time.  
>> 
>> The other approach would be to put function types somewhere
>> else and leave typedefs.h for the simple 'opaque types
>> for structures' that it was started as.
>> 
>> For instance we have include/qemu/fprintf-fn.h as a precedent.
>> 
>
> Indeed, and I'm not quite sure why Juan decided to put these types into
> typedefs.h instead of a dedicated header file in include/migration... is
> it only because it was the quickest fix ?

All other typedefs were defined there.  I can create a different include
file, but I think that is "overengineering", no?  They are typedefs,
just not of structs.  But I agree that they are the only ones.

Later, Juan.