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From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori-NZpS4cJIG2HvQtjrzfazuQ@public.gmane.org>
To: Jun Koi
	<public-junkoi2004-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w-8ByrlEUxsivZ+VzJOa5vwg@public.gmane.org>
Cc: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: opaque field?
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 20:28:29 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4553E3CD.7050606@cs.utexas.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fdaac4d50611080230j2541adc2tbc5267d2b17bda2a-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>

Jun Koi wrote:
> hi,
> 
> in the structure kvm_context in libkvm:
> 
> struct kvm_context {
>     int fd;
>     struct kvm_callbacks *callbacks;
>     void *opaque;
>     void *physical_memory;
> };
> 
> i would propose to change the field name to "private" or "data",
> rather than "opaque", which is a little bit weird to me.

opaque is a pretty common name for this sort of thing.  private is a 
reserved keyword in C++ and data is about as generic as it gets.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Jun
> 
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-11-10  2:28 UTC|newest]

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2006-11-08 10:30 opaque field? Jun Koi
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2006-11-10  2:28   ` Anthony Liguori [this message]

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