Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 2.6.12.6-xen] sysfs attributes for xen

[Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@cl.cam.ac.uk>]

On 30 Jan 2006, at 17:38, Dave Hansen wrote:

> Yes, they are.  Buuuuuuut, you _can_ make the code around them a little
> less evil.  If you _must_ use a typedef, you could do something like
> this:
>
> #define XEN_CAP_INFO_LEN_BYTES 1024
> typedef char [XEN_CAP_INFO_LEN_BYTES] xen_capabilities_info_t;
Is that really better than just referencing the typedef? I've always 
considered them okay for simple scalar and array types, even if they 
are to be avoided for structure types. Is it the size aspect that is 
the problem (e.g., a typedef'ed type should be okay to allocate on the 
stack)?
 -- Keir

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