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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] lpm: Fix pointer aliasing issues
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 21:02:43 +0100
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2016-02-25 21:30, Bruce Richardson:
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 01:48:34PM -0500, Aaron Conole wrote:
> >  /**
> > + * Convert from tbl_entry types to integer types
> > + */
> > +static inline uint16_t
> > +rte_lpm_tbl24_entry_to_uint16(const struct rte_lpm_tbl24_entry *entry)
> > +{
> > +	union {
> > +		uint16_t                   i;
> > +		struct rte_lpm_tbl24_entry s;
> > +	} tbl_entry_u;
> > +
> > +	tbl_entry_u.s = *entry;
> > +	return tbl_entry_u.i;
> > +}
> > +
> > +static inline uint16_t
> > +rte_lpm_tbl8_entry_to_uint16(const struct rte_lpm_tbl8_entry *entry)
> > +{
> > +	union {
> > +		uint16_t                  i;
> > +		struct rte_lpm_tbl8_entry s;
> > +	} tbl_entry_u;
> > +
> > +	tbl_entry_u.s = *entry;
> > +	return tbl_entry_u.i;
> > +}
> > +
> 
> These two new functions could be reduced to one with the help of patch:
> http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/9087/

Aaron, any news about a rework of this patch?