Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] pub-headers: reduce C99 dependencies

[Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Julien Grall writes ("Re: [PATCH] pub-headers: reduce C99 dependencies"):
> I am not the author of the code, but I think it was to declare all the 
> constants of a given set uniformed.
> 
> For instance all the GUEST_* constants are used to define the layout of 
> the guest. This may be shuffle in this future (this is not part of ABI) 
> and if we suffix with ULL only 64-bits constant, it would be a call to 
> forget when moving from a 32-bit to 64-bit value.

Also, it would mean that changes to these constants would lead to
changes to their types which would be undesirable.

Ian.

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