Re: [Qemu-riscv] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/5 v3] RISC-V: Add hooks to use the gdb xml files.

[Jim Wilson]

On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 4:04 PM Alistair Francis <address@hidden> wrote:
> Would it not be easier to add an extra argument to the functions
> intstead of setting and unsetting this?
>
> That's what you had in the earlier version of this set.

The csr support was rewritten, and is now a table of functions.  If I
change the type signature for one function in a table column I have to
change them all.  This means I have to change the type signature of
about 50 functions, the vast majority of which will never use the new
argument.  I was hoping to avoid that, so I added a variable into the
cpu state instead.  In the old patch, before the csr rewrite, I only
had to change the type signature of a couple of functions, most of
which did use the new argument, so that was reasonable at the time.

If I do need to change a lot of type signatures, what about attribute
((unused))?  I see that there is a ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED in the disas dir
but it is apparently not used outside there, and only defined in
include/disas/bfd.h.  I see a few scattered uses of
attribute((unused)) but that seems unwise for portability reasons.
Maybe qemu doesn't care about unused arguments/parameters?

Jim