# Re: \[PATCH v2 00/12\] powerpc: Cleanup use of 'struct ppc\_inst'

- From: Christophe Leroy \<hidden\>
- Date: 2021-06-15 07:24:38 
- List: linuxppc-dev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linuxppc-dev/2021/06/1414388
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linuxppc-dev/2021/05/1386168/t.md

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Le 15/06/2021 à 09:18, Michael Ellerman a écrit :
> Christophe Leroy [ref] writes:
>> This series is a cleanup of the use of 'struct ppc_inst'.
>>
>> A confusion is made between internal representation of powerpc
>> instructions with 'struct ppc_inst' and in-memory code which is
>> and will always be an array of 'unsigned int'.
>
> Why don't we use u32 *, to make it even more explicit what the expected
> size is?
>

I guess that's historical, we could use u32 *

We can convert it incrementaly maybe ?
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