Re: [Xen-devel] Is: PVH + ARM new hypercalls. Was: Re: [PATCH]: PVH: specify xen features strings cleany for PVH

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 05.02.13 at 02:04, Mukesh Rathor <mukesh.rathor@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Feb 2013 10:31:41 +0000
> Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 2013-02-01 at 19:27 +0000, Mukesh Rathor wrote:
>> > On Fri, 01 Feb 2013 16:24:57 +0000
>> > "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > 
> 
>> I don't much care about the gdt vs u naming for the union, although I
>> would probably have gone with the more meaningful gdt if it were me.
>> cscope-wise in emacs I would just use "C-c s t" to look for "gdt.size"
>> etc.
> 
> Unf vim cscope doesn't support that. Moreover, I bet if size was accessed
> via pointer, you couldn't search it that way either. In general, all 
> enterprise software I've worked on prohibited such generic names for 
> the reason people couldn't easily find their usages. I find it very 
> frustrating, and I hope I can continue to be able to read xen code.

I'm sorry, Mukesh, but if everyone else manages to read Xen
code with untagged field names and the like, then I'm afraid
you'll need to find a way for yourself to handle this...

Jan


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