Re: [PATCH] pub-headers: reduce C99 dependencies

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>]

On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 03:05:18AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 29.09.16 at 21:22, <julien.grall@arm.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On 29/09/2016 12:11, Julien Grall wrote:
> >> Hi Jan,
> >>
> >> On 28/09/2016 23:04, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>>>>> On 28.09.16 at 21:42, <julien.grall@arm.com> wrote:
> >>>> Hi Jan,
> >>>>
> >>>> On 28/09/2016 05:00, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>>>> For consumers not using (fully) C99-aware compilers, limit the number
> >>>>> of places where tweaking of the headers would be necessary: Introduce
> >>>>> and use xen_mk_ullong(), allowing its helper macro to be overridden at
> >>>>> once.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> For now don't touch public/io/, which also has a few offenders.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The need to include xen.h in hvm/e820.h demonstrates that it is a bad
> >>>>> idea to include public headers first thing - arch/x86/hvm/mtrr.c needs
> >>>>> adjustment just because of this.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
> >>>>> ---
> >>>>> I wonder why all those ARM constants carry the ULL suffix despite only
> >>>>> two of them actually exceeding 32 significant bits.
> >>>>
> >>>> I am not the author of the code, but I think it was to declare all the
> >>>> constants of a given set uniformed.
> >>>>
> >>>> For instance all the GUEST_* constants are used to define the layout of
> >>>> the guest. This may be shuffle in this future (this is not part of ABI)
> >>>
> >>> Oh, they're in a Xen/tools only section (the #endif could really be
> >>> annotated to help spot this) - in that case I could as well leave them
> >>> alone. Any preference?
> >>
> >> Correct. I can send a patch to annotate the #endif.
> > 
> > It looks like that I did not reply to your question. Do we expect the 
> > toolstack to always C99 standard? If not, then we should keep the 
> > xen_mk_ullong.
> 
> We're even expecting GNUisms to be supported, like
> __attribute__((aligned(...))). But since you said you're fine either
> way, I guess I'll keep the patch as is.
> 

Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>

I will commit this patch soon.

Wei.

> Jan
> 

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