[SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 01/13] Generic DMA memory access interface

Richard Henderson rth at twiddle.net
Wed Jun 1 17:45:56 CEST 2011


On 06/01/2011 08:35 AM, Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu wrote:
> Maybe it's not nice, but you're missing the fact upcasting gives you
> some type safety. With opaques you have none.

Lol.  Do you understand what container_of does?
This is not dynamic_cast<> with RTTI.

You can put any type name in there that you like,
so long as it has a field name to match.  The type
of the field you give doesn't even have to match
the type of the pointer that you pass in.

Type safety this is not.


r~



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