Re: Re: [PATCHES] add _CST support

Pavel Machek
2004-12-28T21:28:08Z

Hi!

> > > C-states are enumerated C0...Cn
> > > C-state types are enumerated C1, C2, C3.
> > > I don't see any confusion in the name-space duplicates
> > > as long as you know you're talking about C-states or C-state-types.
> > >
> >
> > Unfortunately, people often don't know what they are talking about.
> > Having two things called C2 is definitely going to confuse just
> > about everyone but you...
>
> Probably we should not mess with the "well known" (hah;-) name space for
> C-states themselves (C0...Cn).
>
> Types, on the other hand, would probably be well addressed with a enum
> whose vales are 1,2,3 so if we chose to print them out they'd simply be
> a %d -- using C%d only for actual C-states themselves.
>
> would that be better?

Yes.... With right setup we can even do type-checking with sparse.
Pavel
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