Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] tools/libxc: Fix domid parameter types

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 08:00:00PM +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> Mixed throughout libxc are uint32_t, int, and domid_t for domid parameters.
> With a signed type, and an explicitly 16-bit type, it is exceedingly difficult
> to construct an INVALID_DOMID constant which works with all of them.  (The
> main problem being that domid_t gets unconditionally zero extended when
> promoted to int for arithmatic.)
> 
> Libxl uses uint32_t consistently everywhere, so alter libxc to match.

I would rather using domid_t throughout in libxc. Is there any problem
with that?

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