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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Peter Crosthwaite <peter.crosthwaite@xilinx.com>
Cc: Peter Crosthwaite <crosthwaitepeter@gmail.com>,
	Peter Crosthwaite <crosthwaite.peter@gmail.com>,
	"qemu-devel@nongnu.org Developers" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] cpu_defs: Simplify CPUTLB padding logic
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2015 11:00:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <559A43B4.6050901@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEgOgz60KUMS=RrGOh9L=nbnDW5JT-s1HQjYLKdePvhsdqHemw@mail.gmail.com>



On 06/07/2015 10:58, Peter Crosthwaite wrote:
>> > Which compiler version started implementing anonymous structs?
>> >
> ISO C11 standardises it apparently. But various parts of the tree use
> them now. target-arm/cpu.h, target-i386/kvm.c,
> linux-user/syscall_defs.h and linux-headers/linux/kvm.h have liberal
> use to name a few. I have seen it used in devs from time to time for
> unionifying individual registers with an array form for SW access.
> 
> This led me to consider it open season on anonymous structs and unions.

Ok, I wasn't sure about anonymous structs.  We definitely use anonymous
unions a lot.

>> > Or can we just add
>> >
>> >          __attribute__((__aligned__(1 << CPU_TLB_ENTRY_BITS)))
>> >
> Is that more or less standard than anonymous structs?

Not standard (though there is something in C11 too) but decades old as a
GCC extension.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-06  9:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-05 21:08 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] cpu_defs: Simplify CPUTLB padding logic Peter Crosthwaite
2015-07-06  8:43 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-07-06  8:58   ` Peter Crosthwaite
2015-07-06  9:00     ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2015-07-06 11:42   ` Richard Henderson
2015-07-06 11:52     ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-07-06 21:46       ` Peter Crosthwaite

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