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From: Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: Tyler Retzlaff <roretzla@linux.microsoft.com>,
	dev@dpdk.org, stable@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] eal/windows: explicitly cast void * to type *
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2021 22:51:16 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210117225116.58c58e44@sovereign> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210117101039.1dcf7201@hermes.local>

On Sun, 17 Jan 2021 10:10:39 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: 
> > -	*buffer = malloc(size);
> > +	*buffer = (char *)malloc(size);
> >  	if (*buffer == NULL)
> >  		return -1;
> >    
> 
> Why is the compiler enforcing C++ rules on code that is inside "extern C {"?

Code inside extern "C" is not compiled as C; directive only affects linkage.

> Bigger question is why is this code inlined? It is not critical path
> and should be a function.

Absolutely.
There's more: windows/rte_os.h should not expose POSIX symbols at all, I'm
working on a patchset to clean it up and un-inline this code.


      reply	other threads:[~2021-01-17 19:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1610414325-9104-1-git-send-email-roretzla@linux.microsoft.com>
2021-01-13 17:52 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH] eal/headers: " Dmitry Kozlyuk
2021-01-14  5:45   ` Tyler Retzlaff
2021-01-14  7:05     ` Dmitry Kozlyuk
2021-01-14 10:55       ` Bruce Richardson
2021-01-14 18:27         ` Dmitry Kozlyuk
2021-01-14 18:49           ` [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] " Thomas Monjalon
2021-01-15 19:21         ` [dpdk-stable] " Tyler Retzlaff
2021-01-17 17:13           ` [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] " Thomas Monjalon
2021-01-15 19:38 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v2] eal/windows: " Tyler Retzlaff
2021-01-17 17:19   ` [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] " Thomas Monjalon
2021-01-17 18:10   ` Stephen Hemminger
2021-01-17 19:51     ` Dmitry Kozlyuk [this message]

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