[PATCH 0/5] [ioemu]: fix ioemu warnings

["Andre Przywara" <andre.przywara@amd.com>]

Hi,

the following patches fix the warnings which appear when compiling ioemu 
on gcc4 (tested with gcc 4.1.2). As gcc4 is uncommon for pure QEMU, this 
hasn't been fixed there for a while. Keir stated that QEMU-related fixes 
should be upstream there, so I sent an adapted version of these patches 
to qemu-devel in December[1]. Eventually they got accepted there[2], so 
here is a ported version for ioemu.

I don't know if this is in vain, since a few days ago QEMU 0.9.1 has 
been released, which includes the patches (at least the 
QEMU-only-related). As I see from the commit-logs, ioemu gets updated to 
release versions of QEMU now and then, are there plans for doing this 
for 0.9.1?
And NO, I don't want to volunteer ;-)

The patches in detail:
1/5: fix wrong types:
gcc4 is more picky about the signedness of a pointer. Some variables 
were declared with an inappropriate signedness, this patch fixes this.
2/5: pointer casts:
Not all signedness pointer issues can be fixed by declaration, sometimes 
casts are necessary (mostly char* vs. uint8_t*).
3/5: qemu_{put,get} pointer signedness:
qemu_put* and qemu_get* use a unsigned pointer to the variables, some of 
them are declared signed, so this provokes a warning. Switching to call 
by value version of qemu_put, so the compiler handles this correctly.
4/5: fix declaration after statement:
ISO C90 forbids mixed declarations and code. ioemu is compiled with 
-Wdeclaration-after-statement, so this produces a warning. Moved the 
declerations to the beginning of a new block. This patch is not yet 
upstream in QEMU.
5/5: miscellaneous:
Some minor things (details in the patch)


Regards,
Andre.

[1]: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2007-12/msg00146.html
[2]: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2007-12/msg00417.html
      http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2007-12/msg00420.html
      http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2007-12/msg00448.html
      http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2007-12/msg00452.html


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