From db116b1ea3c77a3c5850fccbce9e0795faa21dda Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Brownell Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 21:59:39 -0800 Subject: 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 --- src/target/armv7m.h | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'src/target/armv7m.h') diff --git a/src/target/armv7m.h b/src/target/armv7m.h index d9c62a8d..487d6fde 100644 --- a/src/target/armv7m.h +++ b/src/target/armv7m.h @@ -116,6 +116,12 @@ typedef struct armv7m_common_s void *arch_info; } armv7m_common_t; +static inline struct armv7m_common_s * +target_to_armv7m(struct target_s *target) +{ + return target->arch_info; +} + typedef struct armv7m_algorithm_s { int common_magic; -- cgit v1.2.3