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From: Thomas Renninger <trenn at suse.de>
Subject: Re: [Devel] Reserved method (_PLD) is a buffer instead of a package
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:11:59 +0200
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On Wednesday 07 July 2010 21:52:02 Moore, Robert wrote:
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> Newer versions of iASL will in fact complain about a named buffer that
> is returned, I think.
I checked with version 20100702 and it does not.
Never mind, I just want to get a picture about this problem.
It would be a feature/enhancement to get iasl behave equal, but probably
with a rather low prio...
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> Yes, your change at the end is correct.
Thanks!

> The ACPICA auto-repair code should be able to repair this problem. If
> a buffer is returned, it will wrap a package object around it.
Oh dear. If the world would be perfect, then...

> That doesn't change the fact that the original ASL is incorrect.
So the policy is to workaround/"runtime fix" the buggy ASL code in the =

kernel/interpreter (silently?) and complain about it in the compiler.
Sounds reasonable.

Thanks,

    Thomas

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