Re: [Qemu-devel] [for-1.7] hw/i386/acpi-build.c vs glib-2.12

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 06:49:40AM +1000, Richard Henderson wrote:
> hw/i386/acpi-build.c:294:5: error: implicit declaration of function
> ‘g_string_vprintf’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
>      g_string_vprintf(s, format, args);
> 
> Introduced in 2.14.
> 
> 
> hw/i386/acpi-build.c:427:5: error: implicit declaration of function
> ‘g_array_get_element_size’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
>      return table->len * g_array_get_element_size(table);
> 
> Introduced in 2.22.
> 
> 
> Our (self-)documented minimums are
> 
> if test "$mingw32" = yes; then
>     # g_poll is required in order to integrate with the glib main loop.
>     glib_req_ver=2.20
> else
>     glib_req_ver=2.12
> fi
> 
> 
> Within unix variants at least, vs(n)printf is likely to be much more portable
> than the glib function.

Hmm. The nice thing with the glib variant is that it allocated memory.
Our specific use is actually 4 bytes so yes, we can make do without.

>  I suspect MinGW has it as well, though I've not checked.
> 
> As for g_array_get_element_size, aren't all of your tables element size 1?
> That's all I can see from acpi_build_tables_init, though I admit to not digging
> deeper.
> 
> 
> 
> r~

There's one with size > 1, though that's not hard to change.