Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [XEN][ACM] Allow versioning information in ACM XML policy

[Stefan Berger <stefanb@xxxxxxxxxx>]

xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 03/28/2007
09:02:47 AM:

> On 28/3/07 03:17, "Stefan Berger" <stefanb@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> 
> > This patch allows version information to be embedded in the XML
> representation
> > of the ACM policy. The
> > translation tool has been adapted to parse the version found
in the XML
> > representation and put it into the binary policy. Xen has been
adapted
> > to remember the version information and report it when asked
for the current
> > policy.
> 
> Applied.
> 
> Are the changes to make the structs all packed really required? We
usually
> avoid gcc extensions in public header files (except in some very small
> number of cases).

The structures are all serialized by for example writing
them directly into a file. With the 'packed' I want to prevent that on
different architectures different binary policies are generated due to
architecture-dependent padding inside the structures. With the way the
structures are at the moment, there would not be any padding between the
uint32_t from what I can tell after a test on x86 and powerpc, though maybe
in the future. So the packed is there, but does not affect the padding
at the moment.

   Stefan

> 
>  -- Keir
> 
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