[PATCH v2 00/12] powerpc: Cleanup use of 'struct ppc_inst'

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Wed Jun 16 23:05:46 AEST 2021


Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu> writes:
> Le 15/06/2021 à 09:18, Michael Ellerman a écrit :
>> Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu> writes:
>>> This series is a cleanup of the use of 'struct ppc_inst'.
>>>
>>> A confusion is made between internal representation of powerpc
>>> instructions with 'struct ppc_inst' and in-memory code which is
>>> and will always be an array of 'unsigned int'.
>> 
>> Why don't we use u32 *, to make it even more explicit what the expected
>> size is?
>> 
>
> I guess that's historical, we could use u32 *

Yeah I think it is historical, we just never thought about it much.

> We can convert it incrementaly maybe ?

I've still got this series in next-test, so I'll go through it and
change any uses of unsigned int * to u32 *, and then we can do another
pass later to change the remaining cases.

cheers


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