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

[Richard W.M. Jones]

Daniel Veillard wrote:
> 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 :-)

Fair enough ... I didn't know that about enums actually.

Rich.

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