[PATCH] aarch64: remove casts from more struct initializers

Project / Subsystem

binutils / aarch64

Date

2026-07-24

Proposer

Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>

Source type

public_inbox

Consensus

Proposed

Sentiment

9/10

Technical tradeoffs

  • Minor code simplification versus the minimal risk of introducing regressions in opcode generation.
  • Improving code clarity by removing casts.

All attributes

project
binutils
subsystem
aarch64
patch_id
discussion_id
20f5044f-1c6a-4988-bda3-67495b8423e4@suse.com
source_type
public_inbox
title
[PATCH] aarch64: remove casts from more struct initializers
headline
aarch64: remove casts from more struct initializers
tldr
Cleans up struct initializers in aarch64 target code.
proposer
Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
consensus
Proposed
outcome
proposed
sentiment_score
9
technical_tradeoffs
  • Minor code simplification versus the minimal risk of introducing regressions in opcode generation.
  • Improving code clarity by removing casts.
series_id
series_role
standalone
series_parts
[]
tags
  • aarch64
  • compiler
  • code-generation
  • cleanup
bugzilla_url
date
2026-07-24T00:00:00.000Z

[PATCH] aarch64: remove casts from more struct initializers

Jan Beulich submitted a patch to further clean up struct initializers in the aarch64 target’s code generation, specifically addressing issues in aarch64-gen.c that were missed by a previous commit. Alice Carlotti acknowledged the patch and apologized for prior breakage.