Re: [PATCH] system: Define ram_addr_t to be always uint64_t

On 8/14/26 06:40, Peter Xu wrote:
> QEMU's 32bit host support was deprecated since 10.0 and removed in 11.0, at
> least the system emulation part.  Now it's safe to move ram_addr_t
> completely over to uint64_t.
> 
> It should be almost the same as uintptr_t as before for !Xen, except that
> on some systems (like MacOS) uintptr_t and uint64_t can be typed slightly
> differently, causing unnecessary compiler warnings when use them in a
> mixture way.
> 
> Hopefully, this change also makes it clear that ram_addr_t is never used as
> a host pointer in any form, but only an internal QEMU integer based address
> space for allocating ramblocks.
> 
> [1]https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
> 
> Cc: Paolo Bonzini<[email protected]>
> Cc: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé<[email protected]>
> Suggested-by: Richard Henderson<[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Xu<[email protected]>
> ---
>   include/system/ram_addr.h | 6 ------
>   1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <[email protected]>

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