Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] cpu-common: Modify cpu_physical_memory_read and cpu_physical_memory_write

[Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>]

On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 09:06:55PM +0100, Stefan Weil wrote:
> A lot of calls don't operate on bytes but on words or on structured data.
> So instead of a pointer to uint8_t, a void pointer is the better choice.
> 
> This allows removing many type casts.
> 
> (Some very early implementations of memcpy used char pointers
> which were replaced by void pointers for the same reason).
> 
> Cc: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
> ---
>  cpu-common.h |    4 ++--
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/cpu-common.h b/cpu-common.h
> index ef4e8da..f44a2b0 100644
> --- a/cpu-common.h
> +++ b/cpu-common.h
> @@ -68,12 +68,12 @@ void cpu_unregister_io_memory(int table_address);
>  void cpu_physical_memory_rw(target_phys_addr_t addr, uint8_t *buf,
>                              int len, int is_write);
>  static inline void cpu_physical_memory_read(target_phys_addr_t addr,
> -                                            uint8_t *buf, int len)
> +                                            void *buf, int len)
>  {
>      cpu_physical_memory_rw(addr, buf, len, 0);
>  }
>  static inline void cpu_physical_memory_write(target_phys_addr_t addr,
> -                                             const uint8_t *buf, int len)
> +                                             const void *buf, int len)
>  {
>      cpu_physical_memory_rw(addr, (uint8_t *)buf, len, 1);

We might want to also do the change here, that is replacing (uint8_t *)
to (void *). Also instead of doing half the job, it would be nice to do
the same changes on cpu_physical_memory_rw().

>  }
 

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