Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] blockjob: avoid compiler uncertainty in info sizing

We have a policy of avoiding enum types in structs in our public API, because it is possible for a client to choose compiler options that can change the in-memory ABI of that struct based on whether the enum value occupies an int or a minimal size. But we missed this for virDomainBlockJobInfo. We got lucky on little-endian machines - if the enum fits minimal size (a char), we still end up padding to the next long before the next field; but on big-endian, a client interpreting the enum as a char would always see 0 when the server supplies contents as an int.

@@ -2537,7 +2544,7 @@ typedef unsigned long long virDomainBlockJobCursor; typedef struct _virDomainBlockJobInfo virDomainBlockJobInfo; struct _virDomainBlockJobInfo { - virDomainBlockJobType type; + int type; /* virDomainBlockJobType */ unsigned long bandwidth; /* * The following fields provide an indication of block job progress. @cur