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From: Keir Fraser <keir.xen@gmail.com>
To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
	Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08 of 15] hvmloader: Add a simple "scratch allocator"
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2011 21:00:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA0DAA7F.1B8A7%keir.xen@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110602194331.GA32344@dumpdata.com>

On 02/06/2011 20:43, "Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk" <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> wrote:

>> +    return (void *)(unsigned long)s;
> 
> Why the double cast?

gcc complains if you cast between a pointer and an integer of a different
size. We assume in many places that a pointer is same size as a long, so we
cast through a long when the original integer type may be different size. In
this case, in hvmloader, we know that pointers/longs/uint32_t are all
32-bit, but still I quite like the principle of always casting through a
long when the integer is not explicitly that type already.

 -- Keir

  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-02 20:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-01  9:39 [PATCH 00 of 15] Further SeaBIOS support Ian Campbell
2011-06-01  9:39 ` [PATCH 01 of 15] hvmloader: allow per-BIOS decision on loading option ROMS Ian Campbell
2011-06-01  9:39 ` [PATCH 02 of 15] hvmloader: enable PCI_COMMAND_IO on primary VGA device Ian Campbell
2011-06-01 10:04   ` Ian Campbell
2011-06-01  9:39 ` [PATCH 03 of 15] hvmloader: setup PCI bus in a common function again Ian Campbell
2011-06-01 10:05   ` Ian Campbell
2011-06-01 10:44     ` Ian Campbell
2011-06-01  9:39 ` [PATCH 04 of 15] hvmloader: setup APICs " Ian Campbell
2011-06-01  9:40 ` [PATCH 05 of 15] hvmloader: call SMP setup from common code again Ian Campbell
2011-06-01  9:40 ` [PATCH 06 of 15] hvmloader: make ACPI initialisation hook more general Ian Campbell
2011-06-01  9:40 ` [PATCH 07 of 15] hvmloader: make SMBIOS initialisation " Ian Campbell
2011-06-01  9:40 ` [PATCH 08 of 15] hvmloader: Add a simple "scratch allocator" Ian Campbell
2011-06-02 19:43   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-06-02 20:00     ` Keir Fraser [this message]
2011-06-01  9:40 ` [PATCH 09 of 15] hvmloader: refactor BIOS info setup Ian Campbell
2011-06-01  9:40 ` [PATCH 10 of 15] hvmloader: return MPFPS from create_mp_tables() Ian Campbell
2011-06-01  9:40 ` [PATCH 11 of 15] hvmloader: allow create_mp_tables() to allocate the table Ian Campbell
2011-06-01  9:40 ` [PATCH 12 of 15] hvmloader: smbios: allow the entry point data structure to be located separately Ian Campbell
2011-06-01  9:40 ` [PATCH 13 of 15] hvmloader: further support for SeaBIOS Ian Campbell
2011-06-01  9:40 ` [PATCH 14 of 15] hvmloader: allow the possibility to allocate the size of smbios table we actually need Ian Campbell
2011-06-01  9:40 ` [PATCH 15 of 15] hvmloader: add code to generate a $PIR table Ian Campbell

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