Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 0/9] Misc patches for QEMU 2.5-rc2 (2015-11-25)

[Peter Maydell]

On 26 November 2015 at 12:15, Markus Armbruster <address@hidden> wrote:
> Peter Maydell <address@hidden> writes:
>> I don't see much point in documenting what we rely on
>> if we can't rely on it and need to stop relying on it.
>
> "Can't" and "need" are too strong.  The kernel can, and I fail to see
> what makes us so special that we absolutely cannot.

The kernel has the luxury of being able to say "we only compile
with gcc".

> For what it's worth, I'm sick and tired of patches "fixing" signed
> shifts, and the unnecessary risk that comes with them.

Me too. I just want us to fix this by getting the compiler authors
to document that we can rely on this stuff, not just by silencing
warnings in QEMU's makefiles.

thanks
-- PMM