[U-Boot] [PATCH] Use sizeof(gd_t), not sizeof(struct global_data)

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Mon Jan 3 17:51:46 CET 2011


Dear =?UTF-8?q?Lo=C3=AFc=20Minier?=,

In message <1294069652-9114-1-git-send-email-loic.minier at linaro.org> you wrote:
> The eNET (x86) build fails with "invalid application of 'sizeof' to
> incomplete type 'struct global_data'" because x86 doesn't define
> struct global_data.  Change sizeof(struct global_data) to sizeof(gd_t)
> which is always available.

Um... I do not like this change; the resulting code is harder to read.

Can you please change the struct declaration isntead, like this:

diff --git a/arch/i386/include/asm/global_data.h b/arch/i386/include/asm/global_data.h
index e3f8a25..e9000c3 100644
--- a/arch/i386/include/asm/global_data.h
+++ b/arch/i386/include/asm/global_data.h
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
 
 #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
 
-typedef	struct {
+typedef	struct global_data {
 	bd_t		*bd;
 	unsigned long	flags;
 	unsigned long	baudrate;

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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