[PATCH] x86: rte_mov256 was missing for AVX2

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Mon Aug 29 15:12:37 CEST 2022


29/08/2022 14:18, Morten Brørup:
> At SmartShare Systems we follow a coding convention of including the declaration header file at the absolute top of the file implementing it. This reveals at build time if anything is missing in the declaration header file. The DPDK Project could do the same, and find bugs like this.
> 
> Here's an example:
> 
> foo.h:
> ------
> // Declaration
> static inline uint32_t bar(uint32_t x);
> 
> foo.c:
> ------
> #include <foo.h> // <-- Note: At the absolute top!
> #include <stdint.h>
> 
> // Implementation
> static inline uint32_t bar(uint32_t x)
> {
> 	return x * 2;
> }
> 
> Following our coding convention will reveal that <stdint.h> is required for using <foo.h>, and thus should be included in foo.h (not in foo.c) - because someone else might include <foo.h>, and then <stdint.h> could be missing there.

Yes we could follow this convention.




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