Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 for-2.8 0/4] Fix MacOS runtime failure of qobject_from_jsonf()

[Markus Armbruster]

Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:

> address@hidden reported a runtime failure on a
> 32-bit Mac OS compilation, where "%"PRId64 expands to "%qd".
> Fortunately, we had very few spots that were relying on our
> pseudo-printf JSON parsing of int64_t numbers, so it was
> easier to just convert callers to stick to safer %lld.
>
> The remaining uses of pseudo-printf handling are more complex;
> there are only 3 users in the released codebased, but LOTS of
> users in the testsuite (via wrapper functions like qmp()); I
> will be posting a followup series that rips out the remaining
> uses of dynamic JSON, but it will be 2.9 material, while
> these (first three) patches qualify for 2.8.  The fourth patch
> is RFC; not intended to be applied now, but shows how I tested
> patch 3/4; it will probably reappear in the later 2.9 series.
>
> [*] git log shows the name John, but the particular email that
> sparked this only stated the non-descript name 'G 3', which
> makes it a bit hard for me to know which form is preferred
> when lending credit.

PATCH 1-3 applied to qapi-next for 2.8 with minor touch-ups.  Thanks!