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From: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] lpm: Fix pointer aliasing issues
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 16:47:06 -0400
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Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com> writes:

> 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?

The rework of this series is in my TODO list with deadline of
Thursday. I'll repost the series before then. Sorry for the
confusion/delay.

-Aaron