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RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Cleanup asm-x86/guest_access.h

To: "Egger, Christoph" <Christoph.Egger@xxxxxxx>, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Cleanup asm-x86/guest_access.h
From: "Petersson, Mats" <Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:01:07 +0100
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Christoph Egger
> Sent: 11 January 2007 14:54
> To: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Cleanup asm-x86/guest_access.h
> 
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I cleaned up xen/include/asm-x86/guest_access.h. I also fixed 
> a bug in 
> __copy_field_from_guest(), which seems to me to
> be a kind of cut-copy-paste bug.
> 
> copy_{to,from}_user() and copy_{to,from}_user_hvm() expect a non-const
> argument as the first argument. So I remove the consts from 
> the initializer.
> I replace typeof with __typeof__, which is always available 
> in gcc - it is 
> not, when the -ansi option is used.

And is it expected that Xen will EVER be compiled with -ansi? I think
there's enough gcc-isms in other places that this will never happen -
not that it really makes any difference, I'm just curious if anyone
"cares"... 

--
Mats
> 
> I do some explicit casts, which makes gcc errors more readable.
> In case, you pass an array by your mistake, which gets
> casted to a char *, then gcc tells you that rather just 
> "invalid initializer".
> 
> Christoph
> 



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