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[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 5/8] ide/pci: convert to qdev.


From: Gerd Hoffmann
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 5/8] ide/pci: convert to qdev.
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:16:36 +0200
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On 09/11/09 17:16, Juan Quintela wrote:
But now we look at savevm.c::vmstate_load_state()

        if (field->flags&  VMS_POINTER) {
             base_addr = *(void **)base_addr;
        }

And you see this really nice piece of code.  Each time that we follow a
pointer, we have to read something for a table, hope that value is
right, and follow it.

Do you see know why I want to have the minimal amount of pointers
possible to follow?

No.

Sure, you have to dereference the pointer. I still don't see a problem here. You seem to think this is fragile. Why do you think so? Typechecking missing somewhere?

And yes, I understand why you don't want qdev_create_here() idea, I am
pointing this out to make sure that everybody agrees that not having
qdev_create_here() and having rest of code use more
pointers/malloc/... is the right compromise.

I'm sure you'll need VMS_POINTER anyway. There will be corner cases which don't work without. I think the floppy fifo is one of them.

It is perfectly fine to avoid the pointer indirection if possible.
It isn't the most important thing on earth though.

cheers,
  Gerd





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