[Libvir] [PATCH] add scheduler API(take 3?)

Daniel Veillard veillard at redhat.com
Mon Jun 4 09:57:46 UTC 2007


On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 04:40:39PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> * Changed the type of that field to the more logical 
> virSchedParameterType type.
> 

  Actually there is one thing I would revert from your patch it's the
change from int to virSchedParameterType in structs and parameters. 
Basically the problem comes from the fact that C does not define the
size of an enum, so some compiler may use 8 bits to encode it, others
may use 32bits, or worse say you add a new error value -1 it could 
change from 8 to 32 bits breaking ABI compatibility.
  I really prefer to use int for the virSchedParameterType in public
structs and public functions parameters for this reason, it's far
from ideal, but I prefer this than having weird ABI incompatibilities
due to compiler variations :-)

  otherwise thanks a lot for the cleanup !

Daniel

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