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This partially reverts commitsb279e52f7andea18f8b2. It turns out our code base is full of: if ((struct.member = virBlahFromString(str)) < 0) goto error; Meanwhile, the C standard says it is up to the compiler whether an enum is signed or unsigned when all of its declared values happen to be positive. In my testing (Fedora 20, gcc 4.8.2), the compiler picked signed, and nothing changed. But others testing with gcc 4.7 got compiler warnings, because it picked the enum to be unsigned, but no unsigned value is less than 0. Even worse: if ((struct.member = virBlahFromString(str)) <= 0) goto error; is silently compiled without warning, but incorrectly treats -1 from a bad parse as a large positive number with no warning; and without the compiler's help to find these instances, it is a nightmare to maintain correctly. We could force signed enums with a dummy negative declaration in each enum, or cast the result of virBlahFromString back to int after assigning to an enum value, or use a temporary int for collecting results from virBlahFromString, but those actions are all uglier than what we were trying to cure by directly using enum types for struct values in the first place. It's better off to just live with int members, and use 'switch ((virFoo) struct.member)' where we want the compiler to help, than to track down all the conversions from string to enum and ensure they don't suffer from type problems. * src/util/virstorageencryption.h: Revert back to int declarations with comment about enum usage. * src/util/virstoragefile.h: Likewise. * src/conf/domain_conf.c: Restore back to casts in switches. * src/qemu/qemu_driver.c: Likewise. * src/qemu/qemu_command.c: Add cast rather than revert. Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
LibVirt : simple API for virtualization
Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software
available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of
the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of
Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic
resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing
long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but
should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed.
Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>