From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jes Sorensen Subject: Re: [PATCH kvm-unit-tests 2/4] Introduce a C++ wrapper for the kvm APIs Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 18:45:14 +0100 Message-ID: <4CED4F2A.1040204@redhat.com> References: <1290595933-13122-1-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com> <1290595933-13122-3-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com> <50DD1E97-0ECD-41E6-B6F8-1D78AA4A4876@suse.de> <4CED2416.1040102@codemonkey.ws> <20101124154006.GE15111@redhat.com> <4CED344B.3030000@codemonkey.ws> <4CED3FE6.50900@redhat.com> <4CED41A0.8060003@redhat.com> <4CED4276.9090103@redhat.com> <4CED445E.30105@redhat.com> <4CED4629.2060804@redhat.com> <4CED4738.2020406@redhat.com> <4CED488D.40806@redhat.com> <4CED4B0E.3030805@codemonkey.ws> <4CED4D36.3060708@redhat.com> <4CED4EC3.8090202@codemonkey.ws> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Avi Kivity , Gleb Natapov , Alexander Graf , Marcelo Tosatti , kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Anthony Liguori Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:46129 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754912Ab0KXRpU (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Nov 2010 12:45:20 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4CED4EC3.8090202@codemonkey.ws> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 11/24/10 18:43, Anthony Liguori wrote: > On 11/24/2010 11:36 AM, Jes Sorensen wrote: >> On 11/24/10 18:27, Anthony Liguori wrote: >> >> >>> The compiler won't generate an error. Only upon a call to >>> file_release() will a null pointer dereference happens whereas in C++, >>> because this paradigm is structured in the language, the compiler can >>> help assist you. >>> >> Explicit code means you know what is going on, it means you can debug it >> in gdb and match it. That is a *good* thing! >> > > So I take it you avoid switch statements, while, or for loops in your C > code. Those map easily to assembly code and gdb. Jes