Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 07/10] target-s390: Fix STIDP

[Alexander Graf]

On 09/30/2013 09:48 PM, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On 09/30/2013 11:13 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> > > -    int cpu_num;
> > > +    union {
> > > +        uint64_t cpuid;
> > > +        struct {
> > > +#ifdef HOST_WORDS_BIGENDIAN
> > > +            uint32_t cpu_num;
> > > +            uint32_t machine_type;
> > > +#else
> > > +            uint32_t machine_type;
> > > +            uint32_t cpu_num;
> > > +#endif
> > Are we guaranteed that we don't need to pack? Also anonymous unions/structs are
> > a gcc extension IIRC. And why do you swap endianness here, but not above when
> > defining the machine_type value?
> (1) I can't imagine that we would; such struct/unions are used all over.

*shrug* you're the expert :).

> (2) Sure, but we've so many other gcc extensions I figured it didn't matter.

Avi complained about it to me in Linux patches. Not sure how much we 
care in QEMU.

> (3) Of course.  I want host endianness, not target endianness.

Phew. I think I'm slowly starting to grasp what you're trying to do 
here. Any way you could make this more explicit through shifts and ors 
and other explicit operations? This feels like too much magic to "just 
understand on a glimpse" to me.


Alex