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Tue, 14 Jan 2025 03:46:51 -0800 (PST) From: =?UTF-8?q?Alex=20Benn=C3=A9e?= To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: Thomas Huth , =?UTF-8?q?Philippe=20Mathieu-Daud=C3=A9?= , Stefan Weil , Pierrick Bouvier , Richard Henderson , =?UTF-8?q?Alex=20Benn=C3=A9e?= , =?UTF-8?q?Daniel=20P=2E=20Berrang=C3=A9?= , Markus Armbruster Subject: [PATCH v2 24/37] docs/devel/style: add a section about bitfield, and disallow them for packed structures Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 11:38:08 +0000 Message-Id: <20250114113821.768750-25-alex.bennee@linaro.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.39.5 In-Reply-To: <20250114113821.768750-1-alex.bennee@linaro.org> References: <20250114113821.768750-1-alex.bennee@linaro.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Received-SPF: pass (zohomail.com: domain of gnu.org designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) client-ip=209.51.188.17; envelope-from=qemu-devel-bounces+importer=patchew.org@nongnu.org; helo=lists.gnu.org; Received-SPF: pass client-ip=2a00:1450:4864:20::436; 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this avoids problems with duplicated typedefs and reduces the need to include headers from other headers. =20 +Bitfields +--------- + +C bitfields can be a cause of non-portability issues, especially under win= dows +where `MSVC has a different way to lay them out than GCC +`_, or where +endianness matters. + +For this reason, we disallow usage of bitfields in packed structures and i= n any +structures which are supposed to exactly match a specific layout in guest +memory. Some existing code may use it, and we carefully ensured the layout= was +the one expected. + +We also suggest avoiding bitfields even in structures where the exact +layout does not matter, unless you can show that they provide a significant +usability benefit. + +We encourage the usage of ``include/hw/registerfields.h`` as a safe replac= ement +for bitfields. + Reserved namespaces in C and POSIX ---------------------------------- =20 --=20 2.39.5