Re: [Libvir] [PATCH] libvirt.c: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules

[Mark McLoughlin <markmc redhat com>]

On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 22:52 +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:

> This feels kind of sick - inventing a common shared struct between the
> two driver tables, when there isn't any common stuff to share :-(

	Yeah. Although, as a way to share more code between domains and
networks (especially in qemud), it might make sense.

> Looking at the code, IMHO, the whole approach of iterating over the
> driver
> table soo many times is just wrong, when we can simply have an integer
> count recording how many drivers are registered. This eliminates both
> for(;;) loops, and reduces the amount of code to the point where I
> don't
> think there's anything to be gained by having a generic
> _virDriverRegister
> with all the type-casting this entails.

	That sounds fine.

> @@ -203,7 +166,21 @@ _virRegisterDriver(void *driver, int isN
>  int
>  virRegisterNetworkDriver(virNetworkDriverPtr driver)
>  {
> -    return _virRegisterDriver(driver, 1);
> +    if (virInitialize() < 0)
> +      return -1;
> +
> +    if (driver == NULL) {
> +        virLibConnError(NULL, VIR_ERR_INVALID_ARG, __FUNCTION__);
> +       return(-1);
> +    }
> +
> +    if (virNetworkDriverTabCount >= (sizeof(virNetworkDriverTab)/sizeof(virNetworkDriverPtr))) {

	Just use MAX_DRIVERS?

Cheers,
Mark.