Thiemo Seufer wrote: > Jan Kiszka wrote: >> Fabrice Bellard wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I tend to dislike such macros... >> Why? > > IHMO it isn't a useful abstraction (and therefore code obfuscation). What possible misunderstandings do you see in its naming? Granted, I'm used to it as this scheme is standard under Linux (with variations for CPU hotplugging). The code becomes shorter and thus quicker graspable IMO. And I guess the more QEMU heads for SMP guests, there more often this pattern will occur. My debugger SMP fix already comes with 5 more use cases. Jan