On 06/11/2014 06:10 PM, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:

>>> + *  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
>>> + *  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
>>> + *  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License,
>>> + *  or (at your option) any later version.

>>
>> For the GPL license to work, there has to be a Copyright line.
> 
> Hm. Ok. include/hw/fw-path-provider.h (where I copied this from) does not
> have one and it was ok.

Just because there's existing bad practice in the code base doesn't mean
new files should perpetuate it :)

> 
>>
>>> +static int do_nmi(Object *o, void *opaque)
>>> +{
>>> +    struct do_nmi_s *ns = opaque;
>>> +    NMI *n = (NMI *) object_dynamic_cast(o, TYPE_NMI);
>>
>> Is the cast to (NMI *) necessary, or does object_dynamic_cast() already
>> return something that can be assigned to an arbitrary pointer type?
> 
> 
> All the macros from include/qom/object.h do this cast and so do I.
> 
> object_dynamic_cast returns Object*.

Okay, then the cast is needed.  (I wonder if object_dynamic_cast()
should return void* to avoid the need for casting, but that probably
invites more errors than what it saves from the eliminated casts).

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