Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 9/9] w32: Replace Windows specific data types in common header files

[Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>]

Am 23.02.2014 um 18:02 hat Stefan Weil geschrieben:
> These header files are used by most QEMU source files. If they
> depend on windows.h, all those source files do so, too.
> 
> All Windows specific data types which are replaced use identical
> definitions for the 32 and 64 bit Windows APIs. HANDLE and LONG
> can be directly replaced by void * and long. CRITICAL_SECTION
> is replaced by a new struct of the same size.
> 
> Add an explicit dependency on sysemu/os-winapi.h for some files which need it.
> These sources use the Windows API (see comment after include statement)
> and no longer get windows.h indirectly from other header files.
> 
> A workaround which was added in the previous patch is no longer needed.
> 
> Now 175 *.o files remain which still depend on windows.h.
> 
> Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@amazon.com>
> Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
> Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>

Not sure if I understand the problem. Why is it bad to depend on
windows.h?

Kevin