[libvirt] [PATCH] Don't use enums in TPM struct fields

Daniel P. Berrangé berrange at redhat.com
Thu Jun 7 08:15:06 UTC 2018


On Wed, Jun 06, 2018 at 08:32:39PM +0200, Ján Tomko wrote:
> This deprives us of the -Wswitch-enum warning on all compilers
> because some don't detect the bogus negative value comparison.
> And the comment has even less power than the clang warning. So:
> 
> 1. Is it actually worth the trouble to store enum values in
>   typedef'd enums?
> 2. If so, can we make TypeFromString usage less cumbersome?

We could add a explicit

   VIR_XXXXX_INVALID = -1,

entry to every single enum, which will force the compiler to
always use a signed int for representing the enum.

Regards,
Daniel
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