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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 27/28] sysbus: apic: ioapic: convert to
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To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>, Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>, Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>, qemu-ppc@nongnu.org, Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>

Am 25.01.2012 00:03, schrieb Anthony Liguori:
> On 01/24/2012 04:06 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> On 2012-01-24 22:53, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>> But I don't like this.  The problem is that the declarative syntax we
>>> have doesn't distinguish between "not-specified" and
>>> "zero-initialized".
>>
>> That's surely solvable.
>=20
> Please try :-)
>=20
> I've spent a good chunk of time mulling this over and could not find an
> acceptable solution.  I think the same is true for the GObject folks.
>=20
> There is a declarative solution for this that I know of, a C++ class
> definition ;-)

So what's the reason not to go with one of the object-oriented,
C-compatible languages GCC supports, like C++ or Objective-C/C++?
(Objective-C has native reflection capabilities fwiw.)

Personally I disliked those trivial mini init functions in the initial
2/4 series, too, but I don't really mind an imperative approach either.

Andreas
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