[libvirt] [PATCHv2] storage_encryption: silence clang warning

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Mon May 10 20:33:54 UTC 2010


On 05/10/2010 02:32 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> 
> Using the cast is the lesser evil ;)
> 
>>>
>>> Of course, avoiding casts is good, too, but IMHO, not if
>>> it makes us obfuscate (even ever so slightly) the types we use.
>>
>> Well, the real point of this patch was to silence a compiler warning
>> (not that we'd ever planning on passing an indent > 2G).  Given Dave's
>> ACK, I went ahead and applied v2 as proposed, even if it does slightly
>> obfuscate the usage.
> 
> Warning removal is important.
> But it can end up being counterproductive if not done carefully.

Should I go ahead and revert v2, going back to v1 which localized the
change to just one file?

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Eric Blake   eblake at redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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