Re: [Xen-devel] 32/64-bit hypercall interface - padding

[Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 04 October 2005 11:39, Keir Fraser wrote:
>
> I don;t want to lose pointer type checks. The manual (u64)(unsigned
> long) casting is gross and loses type checking.

Fair enough.

Actually, another thought... have a look at the attached proof-of-concept 
patch. That preserves pointer type safety while still guaranteeing size and 
alignment.

> > I don't like calling it a "ulong," because it isn't, and neither is it
> > a "register" size...
>
> Then what will you call it? xenppchack_t? :-)

:)

-- 
Hollis Blanchard
IBM Linux Technology Center

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