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Re: pipe-filter: nice work


From: Paolo Bonzini
Subject: Re: pipe-filter: nice work
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 17:24:45 +0200
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On 07/23/2011 11:19 PM, Bruno Haible wrote:
>  The only inelegance is having
>  to code up a struct type to pass around the privdata argument even for
>  something as simple as passing data in and reading it out again.
That's life, in C. A callback consists of a function pointer plus a privdata
pointer, which is declared as 'void *' but actually some specialized pointer.

You could pass a typed structure and let the callee use container_of or similar macros.

Paolo



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