On 12/01/2017 02:02, Lluís Vilanova wrote: > Paolo Bonzini writes: > [...] >> A weird idea: what about doing > >> -DGENERATED_TRACERS_H=\"hw/scsi/generated-tracers.h\" > >> and then having > >> #ifdef GENERATED_TRACE_H >> #include GENERATED_TRACE_H >> #endif > >> in include/trace.h? > >> Then you can use full include path for special cases such as >> include/hw/xen/xen_common.h, but the common case is handled directly >> with just > >> #include "trace.h" > >> which refers to $(srcdir)/include/trace.h? (Take the above with a grain >> of salt because I haven't reviewed the patches closely). > > Feels like too much black magic to me for the benefit of a bit less typing.
It's not less typing, it's about consistency. Includes from the current directory are currently included with no path. Paolo