Re: [Qemu-arm] [PATCH for-4.1? 1/2] stellaris_input: Fix vmstate description of buttons field

[Peter Maydell]

On Thu, 25 Jul 2019 at 18:02, Dr. David Alan Gilbert
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> * Peter Maydell (address@hidden) wrote:
> > gamepad_state::buttons is a pointer to an array of structs,
> > not an array of structs, so should be declared in the vmstate
> > with VMSTATE_STRUCT_VARRAY_POINTER_INT32; otherwise we
> > corrupt memory on incoming migration.
> >
> > We bump the vmstate version field as the easiest way to
> > deal with the migration break, since migration wouldn't have
> > worked reliably before anyway.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <address@hidden>
>
> OK, it would be great to change num_buttons to uint32_t and make that a
> UINT32 at some point;  it's hard to press negative buttons.

Is there much benefit though?

As an aside, I'm surprised also the macro doesn't complain
that we said the num_buttons field is int32 but it's really "int"...
arguably a different kind of missing type check.

thanks
-- PMM