From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Rename target_phys_addr_t to Phys
Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2012 12:24:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F096EE7.5030803@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAu8pHvbfzCA2GW5YQzLOrB1xg+tBCZMRm5sN_ajXrt06_Kxjg@mail.gmail.com>
On 01/07/2012 07:44 PM, Blue Swirl wrote:
> > Making the build faster (by killing libhw32/libhw64) would be a good
> > justification for this type of change IMHO.
>
> The original reason was to avoid 64 bit arithmetic on 32 bit hosts.
> Now that 128 bit arithmetic is used for memory API, it probably does
> not make so much sense.
128 bit arithmetic is only used when changing the physical memory map;
not during runtime. However I agree that we should move to 64 bit
addresses exclusively.
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-08 10:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-04 19:32 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Rename target_phys_addr_t to Phys Avi Kivity
2012-01-04 19:50 ` Peter Maydell
2012-01-04 19:54 ` Avi Kivity
2012-01-04 22:09 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-01-04 23:33 ` Peter Maydell
2012-01-05 0:16 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-01-05 0:24 ` Peter Maydell
2012-01-05 8:17 ` Stefan Weil
2012-01-07 17:44 ` Blue Swirl
2012-01-08 10:24 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
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