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SubjectRe: [PULL] typesafe callbacks for kthread and stop_machine
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On Friday 01 August 2008 00:06:43 Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 02:52:35PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > Just the two places I look after. And this time the conglomerate patch
> > is included below for more random commentry.
>
> I must say I personally don't like the wrapper macros that you require
> for each function that uses this. A wrapper macro has a large impact
> on code readability because everyone following a call chain has
> to do an additional grep/open file etc. step. I have my doubts not having
> casts outweights that disadvantage.

Yes, but the benefits of using them everywhere is that they do become part of
the landscape. "Oh, that's a typesafe callback, OK".

If this were just about neatness, I'd share your doubts. But I want to be
able to change the type of a var and have the compiler complain when I hand
it to a function which expects the old type. This bit me a few months back,
leading to this experiment.

> I know that gcc has this funky transparent union extension that
> glibc socket() uses to allow different address types without casts.
> It has the advantage of not needing wrapper macros. Any chance of
> using that instead? Or has that one been considered already and
> discarded?

That's aimed at a slightly different case, where the function knows what types
it can get. But that doesn't work for truly generic callbacks: the type is
completely controlled by the caller. ie. we want to allow whatever type
matches the arg.

Hope that clarifies,
Rusty.


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