Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 00/34] network events feature v2
On 12/11/2013 12:15 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
struct _virObjectEvent {
virObject parent;
int eventID;
virObjectMeta meta;
};
Only has alignment specified by virObject (which in turn is unsigned
int, int, void*),
struct _virObject {
unsigned int magic;
int refs;
virClassPtr klass;
};
I think one possible solution would be as simple as altering
src/util/virobject.h to change 'magic' from 'unsigned int' to
'unsigned
long long' - then ALL virObject structs will be forcefully aligned to
the worst case between void* and long long, so that any subclass can use
long long without requiring stricter alignment than the parent class,
and so that downcasting code like domain_event.c no longer warns. But
it does make every object consume more memory on 64-bit platforms (from
16 bytes into 24 bytes), is that okay?
Or maybe even change _virObject to contain a union:
struct _virObject {
union {
long long align;
struct {
unsigned int magic;
int refs;
} s;
} u;
virClassPtr klass;
}
which keeps the size at 16 bytes on 64-bit platform, keeps things at 12
bytes on 32-bit platforms that don't care about long long alignment, and
for ARM (*) would change things from 12 to 16 bytes with 8-byte
alignment for the long long.
Yeah, that means using obj->u.s.refs instead of obj->refs, but most code
shouldn't be directly mucking with object-internal fields, so hopefully
the fallout would be limited to just virobject.c (if only C99 had
anonymous struct/unions; C11 does, but we don't require that yet).
(*) Am I correct that your platform with the compile failure is a 32-bit
ARM platform with 4-byte pointers? Because if it were 64-bit, then I
would have guessed that an 8-byte pointer would already be forcing
8-byte alignment, such that use of 'long long' in a subclass wouldn't be
warning about changed alignment.
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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