[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 01/15] qapi: add code generator for qmp-types (v2)

[Anthony Liguori]

On 03/11/2011 05:05 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Only generate qmp-types.[ch].  These files contain the type definitions for
> QMP along with the alloc/free functions for these types.  Functions to convert
> enum values to integers and vice versa are also included.
>
> qmp-types is used both within QEMU and within libqmp
>
> Special alloc/free functions are provided to ensure that all structures are
> padded when allocated.  This makes sure that libqmp can provide a forward
> compatible interface since all additions to a structure will have a boolean
> enable flag.
>
> The free function is convenient since individual structures may have pointers
> that also require freeing.
>
> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori<address@hidden>
> ---
> v1 ->  v2
>   - modify code generator to use multiline strings instead of prints
>   - support proxy commands
>   - support async commands

As a friendly hint for reviewers, qmp-gen.py reads a lot better with 
syntax highlighting as the Python code stands out from the C code.  I've 
pushed these patches to:

http://repo.or.cz/w/qemu/aliguori.git qapi/round.1-v2

If you'd prefer to clone that and look at the code in a git tree.

This new series generates the same code as the last series (minus a 
little whitespace differences) so you can refer to the previous series 
to see the code output.+def qmp_event_func_to_c(name):
Regards,

Anthony Liguori