Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] make endian-independent unaligned memory access functions available to libhw

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

On 06/06/2011 04:25 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Functions like ldl_be_p and ldl_le_p are currently used only as building
> blocks for {ld,st}XX_p.  As such, they are in cpu-all.h even though they
> have absolutely no dependency on the target.
>
> In order to make them globally available, this series moves them to
> bswap.h instead.
>
> An interesting part of this is that there are functions also for floating
> point values.  Leaving them in cpu-all.h would be possible but untidy.
> In fact handling these is easy, but it requires to make softfloat.h
> target-dependent as well.  This is what patch 2 does.
>
> v1->v2:
>          rebase, use softfloat-specialize.h instead of introducing
>          softfloat-target.h
>
> Paolo Bonzini (3):
>    move WORDS_ALIGNED to qemu-common.h
>    softfloat: change default nan definitions to variables
>    move unaligned memory access functions to bswap.h
>
>   Makefile.hw                |    2 +-
>   bswap.h                    |  474 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   configure                  |    3 +-
>   cpu-all.h                  |  446 +-----------------------------------------
>   cpu-common.h               |    4 -
>   fpu/softfloat-specialize.h |   72 +++++++
>   fpu/softfloat.h            |   60 +-----
>   qemu-common.h              |    4 +
>   8 files changed, 562 insertions(+), 503 deletions(-)
>

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Paolo