From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [PATCH kvm-unit-tests 2/4] Introduce a C++ wrapper for the kvm APIs Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 20:56:13 +0200 Message-ID: <4CED5FCD.6070200@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> <4CED4F2A.1040204@redhat.com> <4CED5303.902@codemonkey.ws> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jes Sorensen , Gleb Natapov , Alexander Graf , Marcelo Tosatti , kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Anthony Liguori Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:28462 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753147Ab0KXS4U (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Nov 2010 13:56:20 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4CED5303.902@codemonkey.ws> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 11/24/2010 08:01 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: >>> So I take it you avoid switch statements, while, or for loops in your C >>> code. >> Those map easily to assembly code and gdb. > > The mapping is definitely not simply especially after a couple rounds > of loop unrolling and code motion. You're discounting dead code elimination, which can simplify things considerably. -- I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this signature is too narrow to contain.