Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL for-1.7 v2 3/6] acpi-build: fix build on glib < 2.22

[Richard Henderson]

On 11/26/2013 06:31 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 06:24:53AM +1000, Richard Henderson wrote:
>> On 11/25/2013 09:48 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>>> g_string_vprintf was only introduced in 2.24 so switch to vsnprintf
>>> instead.  A bit uglier but name size is fixed at 4 bytes here so it's
>>> easy.
>>
>> You list 2.24 here,
>>
>>> -    GString *s = g_string_new("");
>>> +    /* It would be nicer to use g_string_vprintf but it's only there in 
>>> 2.22 */
>>
>> ... 2.22 here.
>>
>> But https://developer.gnome.org/glib/2.28/glib-Strings.html#g-string-vprintf
>>
>> says "since 2.14".
>>
>>> +    char s[] = "XXXX";
>>
>> char s[5];
>>
>> Initializing it is a waste of time.
>>
>>
>> r~
> 
> It's sets the length in a nice way.
> 

Then do something like

  char s[sizeof("XXXX")];

so that the actual initialization doesn't happen.


r~