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From: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: patches@linaro.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] bswap.h: Rename ldl_p, stl_p, etc to ldl_he_p, stl_he_p, etc
Date: Fri, 02 May 2014 11:48:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5363E860.6060307@twiddle.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1399051958-9459-1-git-send-email-peter.maydell@linaro.org>

On 05/02/2014 10:32 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> We have an unfortunate naming clash between the functions
> ldl_p, stl_p, etc defined in bswap.h (which have semantics
> "load/store in host endianness") and the #defines of the same
> name in cpu-all.h (which have the semantics "load/store in
> target endianness").
> 
> Fortunately it turns out that the only users of the bswap.h
> functions are all within bswap.h itself, so we can simply
> rename them to include a _he_ infix for "host endianness".
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
> ---
> Frankly I'm surprised that the only users of these functions
> are the ones within bswap.h itself, but it's a lucky escape
> from having to audit an enormous pile of code...
> 
> We had talked about changing the "target-endian" accessors
> to be ldl_te_p &c, but given the uses aren't tangled together
> as I feared they would be, I'm not sure we can justify the
> global function rename.

I'm surprised too, but... good news, I guess.

Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>


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  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-02 18:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-02 17:32 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] bswap.h: Rename ldl_p, stl_p, etc to ldl_he_p, stl_he_p, etc Peter Maydell
2014-05-02 18:48 ` Richard Henderson [this message]
2014-05-15 18:13   ` Peter Maydell
2014-05-15 18:22     ` Richard Henderson
2014-05-19  7:53       ` Michael Tokarev

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