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David Brownell authored
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>
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