From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Cc: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>, TeLeMan <geleman@gmail.com>,
Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL] slirp: Fix issues with -mms-bitfields
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:17:50 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E564B7E.5030202@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E56498D.8080505@web.de>
On 08/25/2011 04:09 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> >>
> >> We should simply avoid bitfields on externally-defined formats;
> >> meanwhile we can use __attribute__((gcc_struct)) and keep using those we
> >> have already.
> >
> > +1
>
> We aren't discussing bitfields anymore but essential unaligned (and
> therefore packed) protocol structs.
>
> And I'm not that much worried about going through the few slirp structs
> but all the other 250 packed ones in entire QEMU.
>
AFICT gcc_struct is also about alignment, so it should just_work.
--
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-25 13:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-15 6:39 [Qemu-devel] [PULL] slirp: Fix issues with -mms-bitfields Jan Kiszka
2011-08-20 20:00 ` Stefan Weil
2011-08-23 10:49 ` TeLeMan
2011-08-24 9:11 ` Jan Kiszka
2011-08-25 1:14 ` TeLeMan
2011-08-25 11:04 ` Jan Kiszka
2011-08-25 12:02 ` TeLeMan
2011-08-25 12:38 ` Jan Kiszka
2011-08-25 13:02 ` Avi Kivity
2011-08-25 13:07 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-08-25 13:09 ` Jan Kiszka
2011-08-25 13:17 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2011-08-25 13:15 ` Avi Kivity
2011-08-25 13:19 ` Jan Kiszka
2011-08-25 13:21 ` Avi Kivity
2011-08-25 13:06 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-08-25 13:13 ` Jan Kiszka
2011-08-25 13:22 ` Avi Kivity
2011-08-25 13:36 ` Peter Maydell
2011-08-25 13:39 ` Avi Kivity
2011-08-25 13:28 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-08-25 13:32 ` Jan Kiszka
2011-08-25 14:03 ` Stefan Weil
2011-08-25 14:23 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-08-25 17:15 ` Jan Kiszka
2011-08-21 19:49 ` Blue Swirl
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