On 19/01/16 14:21, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Tue, 2016-01-19 at 14:06 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote: >> I am not a fan of the cast as a solution. I would rather, prefer to >> regularise the situation. If my co-maintainers agree about the >> desirability of expecting libxl callers to use enum values from Xen >> public headers, <snip> > I think part of the problem is that it is hard to expose just the desired > bits through to the user of libxl without also exposing the full xen > hypercall interface (the vast majority of which would be inappropriate to > expose to them since libxl is suppose to encapsulate such things).
I agree with this sentiment... > As a possible alternative, we could make it such that the IDL generator > knows about the linkage and enforces the use of the same values, and > automatically provides conversion helpers (essential a cast wrapped in some > syntax) for _internal_ use. ...and using the IDL to enforce or generate values was my first thought. -George _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
