Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 2/6] qdict: Add convenience helpers for wrapped puts

[Julia Lawall]

On Wed, 5 Apr 2017, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 04, 2017 at 05:41:08PM -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
> > On 01/19/2017 08:38 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> > > On 01/19/2017 03:25 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> > >> Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:
> > >>
> > >>> Quite a few users of qdict_put() were manually wrapping a
> > >>> non-QObject. We can make such call-sites shorter, by providing
> > >>> common macros to do the tedious work.  Also shorten nearby
> > >>> qdict_put_obj(,,QOBJECT()) sequences.
> > >>>
> > >>> Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
> > >>> Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <address@hidden>
> > >>>
> > >>> ---
> > >>>
> > >>> v2: rebase to current master
> > >>>
> > >>> I'm okay if you want me to break this patch into smaller pieces.
> > >>
> > >> I guess I'm okay with a single piece, but I'd like to know how you did
> > >> the conversion.  Coccinelle?  Manually?
> > >
> > > Manual, via grepping for put_obj.*QOBJECT. I'll see if I can do the same
> > > under Coccinelle (at which point, committing the script will make it
> > > easier to rerun cleanups if later code reintroduces poor usage
> > > patterns), so maybe I have a v3 coming up.
> >
> > I've got a Coccinelle patch (mostly) working now - but it has one
> > shortfall - I found places in tests/check-qdict.c that coccinelle
> > didn't, and traced it to the fact that our use of g_assert_cmpint(expr,
> > ==, expr) throws off the coccinelle parser so badly that it silently
> > ignores the entire function body containing the use of that macro.
>
> Julia ^ is this a known issue?

Yes, it's completely standard.  If there is a problem parsing a top-level
code unit, then the whole top-level code unit is ignored.

julia

>
> If Eric is using the Fedora version of coccinelle, then he would be
> using either 1.0.6 or 1.0.5.
>
> > v3 will be posted soon, with the best of both worlds (coccinelle
> > caught spots that I missed, not to mention recent code base changes;
> > and my manual search found the spots in tests/ that coccinelle
> > missed).
>
> Rich.
>
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