Re: [Qemu-devel] Why QEMUClock is defined in qemu-timer.c?

[Richard Yang]

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:00:30PM +0200, Dmitry Zamaruev wrote:
>This is used in many places.
>Maybe to simulate 'private' variables and access methods like in C++.
>
>If you define structure in .c file then every function that works with
>this structure must reside in same file. And any other code to use
>structure must use access-functions (api) to alter it and not directly
>(compiler will issue error about incomplete type).
>This way you could change structure or internal data handling without
>affecting external code that relies on "stable api functions".

Thanks for your explanation. 
I learned a lot. 


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