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use repr C to suppress not-ffi-safe when used with extern handler functions #94

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@cmsd2 cmsd2 commented Nov 18, 2019

the interrupt handler functions are extern to allow for the special calling convention.
rust warns about using this struct with extern functions.
this patch suppresses the warning by fixing the struct layout.

i think in this case the warning is correctly pointing out that while the nested InterruptStackFrameValue is repr(C), the wrapper type is not. it seems incredibly unlikely that the compiler would do anything wrong here but adding repr(C) guards against it.

example warning:

   Compiling libkernel v0.1.0 (/Users/cmsd2/Development/ostoo/libkernel)
warning: `extern` fn uses type `x86_64::structures::idt::InterruptStackFrame`, which is not FFI-safe
  --> libkernel/src/interrupts.rs:70:18
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70 |     stack_frame: &mut InterruptStackFrame)
   |                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ not FFI-safe
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   = note: `#[warn(improper_ctypes)]` on by default
   = help: consider adding a `#[repr(C)]` or `#[repr(transparent)]` attribute to this struct
   = note: this struct has unspecified layout

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Thanks a lot!

@phil-opp phil-opp merged commit d082e7b into rust-osdev:master Nov 18, 2019
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Published as version 0.7.6

phil-opp pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Dec 13, 2019
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