From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:51199) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rjpvk-0006o5-Ne for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 08 Jan 2012 05:24:49 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rjpvj-0000EH-RX for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 08 Jan 2012 05:24:48 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:32512) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rjpvj-0000E3-HW for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 08 Jan 2012 05:24:47 -0500 Message-ID: <4F096EE7.5030803@redhat.com> Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2012 12:24:39 +0200 From: Avi Kivity MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1325705558-24358-1-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com> <4F04CE13.3030005@codemonkey.ws> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Rename target_phys_addr_t to Phys List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Blue Swirl Cc: Peter Maydell , qemu-devel@nongnu.org On 01/07/2012 07:44 PM, Blue Swirl wrote: > > Making the build faster (by killing libhw32/libhw64) would be a good > > justification for this type of change IMHO. > > The original reason was to avoid 64 bit arithmetic on 32 bit hosts. > Now that 128 bit arithmetic is used for memory API, it probably does > not make so much sense. 128 bit arithmetic is only used when changing the physical memory map; not during runtime. However I agree that we should move to 64 bit addresses exclusively. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function