Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Introduce module API to QEMU

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

Avi Kivity wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>>
>>> Hmm, this raises annother issue - we've got to be extremely careful 
>>> about ordering. It's not inconcievable that the PCI support code 
>>> would have constructors (e.g. to register a PCI bus type).
>>>   
>>
>> Looks like constructor/destructor has explicit support for ordering.  
>> Neat.
>
> I'd avoid it.  Have the constructor do a *pci_module_table++ = blah 
> and iterate through that later.

Yup, came to that conclusion too.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> I prefer to have the code explicit somewhere rather than gobs of 
> unportable magic.  Use it where you have to, but not elsewhere.
>
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