Re: [RFC PATCH 17/35] Segment register changes for Xen

From: Avi Kivity
Date: Thu May 11 2006 - 06:34:15 EST


Pavel Machek wrote:
Really? If someone does

if (something)
clearsegment(seg)
somethingelse();

... he'll get very confusing behaviour instead of compile error.

Okay, that's weaker argument than expected...

Also clearsegment(x) clearsegment(y); will compile when it should not.

Also clearsegment(i++) will behave strangely. So perhaps

#define clearsegment(seg) do { seg; } while (0)

static inline void clearsegment(int seg) {}

?

--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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