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From: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC] main loop: fix some accesses made in sighandler context
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 09:58:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E730188.7090103@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA_NpbCy8mLyRu4JDmSDn2jjuYk_fYz1mKnYnh6kr6VDGw@mail.gmail.com>

On 09/15/11 21:44, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 15 September 2011 18:22, Laszlo Ersek<lersek@redhat.com>  wrote:
>> -int no_shutdown = 0;
>> +volatile int no_shutdown = 0;
>
> So why 'volatile' and not 'sig_atomic_t', then?

The sigaction() spec  says"volatile sig_atomic_t", so that would be 
ideal. My assumption was that "sig_atomic_t" (which is allowed by POSIX 
not to be wider than "char") would be in practice at least as wide as 
"int" and "pid_t". Should my assumption be wrong on some platforms, 
qualifying the variables "volatile" while keeping their current types 
(int / pid_t) does less damage (no damage) than narrowing their types.

lacos

  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-16  7:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-15 17:22 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC] main loop: fix some accesses made in sighandler context Laszlo Ersek
2011-09-15 19:16 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-09-16  8:08   ` Laszlo Ersek
2011-09-15 19:44 ` Peter Maydell
2011-09-16  7:58   ` Laszlo Ersek [this message]
2011-09-16  9:09     ` Markus Armbruster
2011-09-16  8:52 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] " Laszlo Ersek
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-09-16 14:31 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC] " Eric Blake

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