Re: [Qemu-trivial] [Qemu-devel] Go along with glib's basic type typedef silliness?

[Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>]

Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 7:01 PM, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> wrote:
>> [Thread hijack, dropping cc: qemu-trivial, qemu-ppc]
>>
>> Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de> writes:
>>
>>> Am 14.01.2013 13:19, schrieb Markus Armbruster:
>>>> Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de> writes:
>> [...]
>>>>> diff --git a/qom/object.c b/qom/object.c
>>>>> index 351b88c..03e6f24 100644
>>>>> --- a/qom/object.c
>>>>> +++ b/qom/object.c
>>>>> @@ -1017,7 +1017,7 @@ gchar *object_get_canonical_path(Object *obj)
>>>>>      return newpath;
>>>>>  }
>>>>>
>>>>> -Object *object_resolve_path_component(Object *parent, gchar *part)
>>>>> +Object *object_resolve_path_component(Object *parent, const gchar *part)
>>>>>  {
>>>>>      ObjectProperty *prop = object_property_find(parent, part, NULL);
>>>>>      if (prop == NULL) {
>>>>
>>>> Unrelated: do we really want to go along with glib's basic type typedef
>>>> silliness?
>>>
>>> Elsewhere I have adopted the exact GLib signature since typedefs can be
>>> changed at any time. In particular the GCompareFunc using gconstpointer,
>>> gint, etc. Not saying I find their GLib usage useful.
>>
>> No, these typedefs cannot be changed.
>>
>> Firstly, their exact definitions are documented[*], therefore can be
>> relied on.
>>
>> Secondly, mountains of code rely on the exact definitions, and would
>> break left and right if they were changed.
>>
>> They're a textbook example of a perfectly useless pseudo-abstraction.
>
> CONST, WORD, PWORD, DWORD, FLOAT etc. in a certain platform...

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