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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Rename target_phys_addr_t to Phys


From: Avi Kivity
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Rename target_phys_addr_t to Phys
Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2012 12:24:39 +0200
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On 01/07/2012 07:44 PM, Blue Swirl wrote:
> > Making the build faster (by killing libhw32/libhw64) would be a good
> > justification for this type of change IMHO.
>
> The original reason was to avoid 64 bit arithmetic on 32 bit hosts.
> Now that 128 bit arithmetic is used for memory API, it probably does
> not make so much sense.

128 bit arithmetic is only used when changing the physical memory map;
not during runtime.  However I agree that we should move to 64 bit
addresses exclusively.

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function




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