Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 10/30] qdev: don't access name through info

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 01/03/2012 01:51 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>       d->nic = qemu_new_nic(&net_e1000_info,&d->conf,
> -                          qdev_get_info(&d->dev.qdev)->name, d->dev.qdev.id, 
> d);
> +                          object_get_typename(OBJECT(d)), d->dev.qdev.id, d);

It's a pity that this loses type-safety.

Perhaps we should look at adding a warning for "unsafe" pointer casts to 
GCC.

Paolo