Re: [RFC PATCH 17/35] Segment register changes for Xen

Avi Kivity
2006-05-11T10:34:40Z

Pavel Machek wrote:
> Really? If someone does
>
> if (something)
> clearsegment(seg)
> somethingelse();
>
> ... he'll get very confusing behaviour instead of compile error.
>
> Okay, that's weaker argument than expected...
>
> Also clearsegment(x) clearsegment(y); will compile when it should not.
>
> Also clearsegment(i++) will behave strangely. So perhaps
>
> #define clearsegment(seg) do { seg; } while (0)
>

static inline void clearsegment(int seg) {}

?

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function