object: require maximal alignment in base class
Recent changes to events (commit
8a29ffcf) resulted in new compile
failures on some targets (such as ARM OMAP5):
conf/domain_event.c: In function 'virDomainEventDispatchDefaultFunc':
conf/domain_event.c:1198:30: error: cast increases required alignment of
target type [-Werror=cast-align]
conf/domain_event.c:1314:34: error: cast increases required alignment of
target type [-Werror=cast-align]
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
The error is due to alignment; the base class is merely aligned
to the worst of 'int' and 'void*', while the child class must
be aligned to a 'long long'. The solution is to include a
'long long' (and for good measure, a function pointer) in the
base class to ensure correct alignment regardless of what a
child class may add, but to wrap the inclusion in a union so
as to not incur any wasted space. On a typical x86_64 platform,
the base class remains 16 bytes; on i686, the base class remains
12 bytes; and on the impacted ARM platform, the base class grows
from 12 bytes to 16 bytes due to the increase of alignment from
4 to 8 bytes.
Reported by Michele Paolino and others.
* src/util/virobject.h (_virObject): Use a union to ensure that
subclasses never have stricter alignment than the parent.
* src/util/virobject.c (virObjectNew, virObjectUnref)
(virObjectRef): Adjust clients.
* src/libvirt.c (virConnectRef, virDomainRef, virNetworkRef)
(virInterfaceRef, virStoragePoolRef, virStorageVolRef)
(virNodeDeviceRef, virSecretRef, virStreamRef, virNWFilterRef)
(virDomainSnapshotRef): Likewise.
* src/qemu/qemu_monitor.c (qemuMonitorOpenInternal)
(qemuMonitorClose): Likewise.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>