qemu 安装 recipe for target 'block/file-posix.o' failed error: missing binary operator before token "(

最近尝试了在 Ubuntu 18.04 上编译安装 qemu-4.2，qemu-5.0.0，发现编译遇到了问题。
问题如下：

/usr/include/linux/swab.h: In function ‘__swab’:
  CC      hw/char/digic-uart.o
  CC      hw/char/omap_uart.o
  CC      hw/char/exynos4210_uart.o
xxx/qemu-5.0.0/include/qemu/bitops.h:20:34: warning: "sizeof" is not defined, evaluates to 0 [-Wundef]
 #define BITS_PER_LONG           (sizeof (unsigned long) * BITS_PER_BYTE)
                                  ^
xxx/qemu-5.0.0/include/qemu/bitops.h:20:41: error: missing binary operator before token "("
 #define BITS_PER_LONG           (sizeof (unsigned long) * BITS_PER_BYTE)

...

xxx/qemu-5.0.0/rules.mak:69: recipe for target 'block/file-posix.o' failed
make: *** [block/file-posix.o] Error 1
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

经过分析是因为预编译器不认识 sizeof 运算符¹。

因此应当避免使用 sizeof。解决办法，修改 qemu-5.0.0/include/qemu/bitops.h。

 #define BITS_PER_LONG           (sizeof (unsigned long) * BITS_PER_BYTE)
 改成
 #define BITS_PER_LONG           (__SIZEOF_LONG__ * BITS_PER_BYTE)

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1. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21338385/what-does-the-compiler-error-missing-binary-operator-before-token-mean ↩︎