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Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH v3 0/6] include: Auto-generate the sizes lookup


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH v3 0/6] include: Auto-generate the sizes lookup table
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 13:26:08 -0600
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On 1/10/19 1:18 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> Patches speak louder than words.  This is my counter-proposal to
> Leonid's thread on how best to respresent the S_*iB macros in units.h,
> where my proposal is that we don't need them at all. (hence my subject
> line, even though it is completely unrelated to the series)
> 
> True, my diffstat is even bigger, but I think it is more maintainable
> in the long run (if calling QemuOpts maintainable is even appropriate).

I wasn't brave enough to assert that def_value_str was used only with
QEMU_OPT_STRING, and that all uses of QEMU_OPT_{BOOL,NUMBER,SIZE} with a
default value are either defaulting to 0 or using def_value_int; that's
a bigger auditing task followup that could be given as a BiteSizedTask,
if you like this series.

Of course, if we ever get around to teaching the QAPI generators about
default values (where we could have strongly-typed defaults enforced by
the generator, rather than quacks-like-a-duck defaults in QemuOpts), and
converting more things to QAPI and away from QemuOpts, that's even
better (but an even bigger task).

-- 
Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.           +1-919-301-3226
Virtualization:  qemu.org | libvirt.org

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