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From: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Jimi Xenidis <jimix@watson.ibm.com>,
	Ian Pratt <m+Ian.Pratt@cl.cam.ac.uk>,
	Andrei Petrov <andrei@xensource.com>,
	xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: 32/64-bit hypercall interface
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 14:39:24 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <433DA27C.5060408@lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200509301528.06152.hollisb@us.ibm.com>

Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> On Friday 30 September 2005 15:05, Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> 
>>Jimi Xenidis wrote:
>>
>>> KF> When we previously had this, by defining packed structs, there were
>>> KF> plenty of screams that it wasn't ANSI compliant, and that
>>>performance KF> sucks on some architectures.
>>>
>>>Tou use a research term, "thats just ka-ka" :)
>>>Packed in no way solves the problem of selecting the appropriate types.
>>
>>no, it's not ka ka at all. I had huge troubles with plan 9 c and the way
>>that the linux structs were packed via the use of gcc struct packing. I
>>am really glad packed went away.
> 
> 
> I think you misunderstand: Jimi is also glad. Read again: the packed GCC 
> attribute does not solve the problem.
> 

That figures. I am really sorry it's monday.

thanks

ron
p.s. jimix, whereever you may be, I'm sorry.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-30 20:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-29 13:56 32/64-bit hypercall interface Ian Pratt
2005-09-29 18:17 ` Hollis Blanchard
2005-09-29 20:12   ` Hollis Blanchard
2005-09-29 22:26     ` Keir Fraser
2005-09-29 22:43     ` Keir Fraser
2005-09-30  0:54       ` Andrei Petrov
2005-09-30  8:03         ` Keir Fraser
2005-09-30 15:38           ` Jimi Xenidis
2005-09-30 20:05             ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-09-30 20:28               ` Hollis Blanchard
2005-09-30 20:39                 ` Ronald G Minnich [this message]
2005-09-30 15:39           ` Hollis Blanchard
2005-09-30 15:45             ` Keir Fraser
2005-09-30 16:34               ` Hollis Blanchard
2005-09-30 16:42                 ` Keir Fraser
2005-09-30 17:03                   ` Hollis Blanchard
2005-10-01  1:33                   ` Jeremy Katz
2005-10-03 19:34                   ` Kip Macy
2005-09-30 16:44                 ` David
2005-09-30 16:44                   ` Keir Fraser
2005-09-30 16:57                   ` Hollis Blanchard
2005-09-30 16:55               ` Andrei Petrov
2005-10-03 18:18 ` Hollis Blanchard
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-10-04 21:51 Nakajima, Jun
2005-10-04 22:47 ` Hollis Blanchard
2005-10-04 16:03 Nakajima, Jun
2005-10-04 16:45 ` Andi Kleen
2005-10-03 22:03 Ian Pratt
2005-10-04 18:05 ` Hollis Blanchard
2005-10-05 10:22   ` Keir Fraser
2005-10-03 21:24 Nakajima, Jun
2005-10-04 12:11 ` Andi Kleen
2005-10-04 16:15 ` Hollis Blanchard
2005-10-03 19:56 Ian Pratt
2005-10-03 20:04 ` Jeremy Katz
2005-10-03 21:11 ` Hollis Blanchard
2005-10-03 22:00   ` Keir Fraser
2005-10-04 16:27     ` Hollis Blanchard
2005-10-04 12:08 ` Andi Kleen
2005-10-03 19:11 Nakajima, Jun
2005-10-03 19:28 ` Hollis Blanchard
2005-10-02 21:21 Ian Pratt
2005-10-01 18:25 Nakajima, Jun
2005-10-03 16:11 ` Jeremy Katz
2005-09-28 21:36 Hollis Blanchard
2005-09-29  9:00 ` Keir Fraser
2005-09-29 12:41   ` Jimi Xenidis
2005-09-29 13:13     ` Keir Fraser

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