Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 9/9] w32: Replace Windows specific data types in common header files

[Andreas Färber]

Am 25.02.2014 00:07, schrieb Stefan Weil:
> Am 24.02.2014 14:07, schrieb Andreas Färber:
>> Am 23.02.2014 18:02, schrieb Stefan Weil:
>>> These header files are used by most QEMU source files. If they
>>> depend on windows.h, all those source files do so, too.
>>>
> [...]
>>
>> First of all, why was I not CC'ed on this change?
>> File is listed under "CPU" subsystem in MAINTAINERS.
>>
>> Patches not getting sufficient review is one risk, causing merge
>> conflicts another. People should be aware of changes you make in their
>> files, even if "just" Windows-related.
> 
> Sorry, I simply missed your name in the lengthy output from
> get_maintainer.pl.
> 
>> I had moved the field unchanged from another header, I believe. I don't
>> think this is a good change (assuming the Windows API is still using
>> this type and not void*), especially since it's #ifdef'ed anyway.
> 
> Please see my mail to Kevin (which will be sent in a moment).

My opinion still stands. You can easily add "typedef void * HANDLE;" to
qemu-typedefs.h or osdep.h to retain telling type names, in this case
explaining why the variable is called "hThread" - h for "HANDLE".

Regards,
Andreas

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