From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Introduce module API to QEMU
Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2009 10:50:15 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49D5BFB7.9040908@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1238724755-15929-1-git-send-email-aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Anthony Liguori wrote:
> It uses __attribute__((section)) to make module_init/module_exit work. I looked
> at making this work by using a parser to find and extract all of these things.
> I'm not sure I know a good way to force the names to be unique via CPP but in
> the very least, I came to the determination that I would need to use something
> like perl or python which would introduce a new dependency to the build.
>
> I figured using the GCCism was a lesser burden since we don't attempt to support
> any compiler other than GCC today.
>
If we're introducing a gccism, __attribute__((__constructor__)) is a
lesser evil IMO, and much more understandable.
--
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-03 7:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-03 2:12 [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Introduce module API to QEMU Anthony Liguori
2009-04-03 2:29 ` malc
2009-04-03 3:36 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-04-03 3:48 ` malc
2009-04-03 12:59 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-04-03 17:00 ` malc
2009-04-03 17:31 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-04-03 17:46 ` malc
2009-04-03 17:59 ` M. Warner Losh
2009-04-03 17:58 ` M. Warner Losh
2009-04-03 18:05 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-04-03 20:12 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-04-03 18:30 ` malc
2009-04-03 7:08 ` Mark McLoughlin
2009-04-03 13:01 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-04-03 17:36 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-04-03 7:50 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2009-04-03 11:35 ` Paul Brook
2009-04-03 12:57 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-04-03 13:09 ` Paul Brook
2009-04-03 14:10 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-04-03 14:11 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-04-03 14:28 ` Paul Brook
2009-04-03 14:53 ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-03 16:15 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-04-03 17:12 ` Blue Swirl
2009-04-03 14:04 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-04-03 14:54 ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-03 15:10 ` Paul Brook
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