target: provide container_of()

Provide a cleaner way to handle single inheritance of targets
in C, using the same model Linux does:  structs containing other
structs, un-nested via calls to a "container_of()" macro that
are packaged in typesafe inline functions.

Targets already use this containment idiom, but make it much
more complicated because they un-nest using embedded "void *"
pointers ... in chains of up to five per target, which is all
pure needless complication.  (Example: arm92x core, arm9tdmi,
arm7_9, armv4_5 ... on top of the base "target" class.)

Applying this scheme consistently simplifies things, and gets
rid of many error-prone untyped pointers.  It won't change any
part of the type model though -- it just simplifies things.
(And facilitates more cleanup later on.)

Rule of thumb:  where there's an X->arch_info void* pointer,
access to that pointer can and should be removed.  It may be
convenient to set up pointers to some of the embedded structs;
and shrink their current "*_common" names (annoyingly long).

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/target/xscale.h b/src/target/xscale.h
index 4b34cf88..a1f3d463 100644
--- a/src/target/xscale.h
+++ b/src/target/xscale.h
@@ -134,6 +134,13 @@ typedef struct xscale_common_s
 	int fast_memory_access;
 } xscale_common_t;
 
+static inline struct xscale_common_s *
+target_to_xscale(struct target_s *target)
+{
+	return container_of(target->arch_info, struct xscale_common_s,
+			armv4_5_common);
+}
+
 typedef struct xscale_reg_s
 {
 	int dbg_handler_number;