Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] win32: use PRId64 instead of %lld

[Markus Armbruster]

Luiz Capitulino <address@hidden> writes:

> On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:38:38 +0200
> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <address@hidden> wrote:
[...]
>> The issue I see isn't related to unsigned.  Apparently we currently
>> accept values such as 'a' as valid strings. Since this is not valid json
>> we probably should reject it just in case we will want to switch to
>> another json library, otherwise clients might come to depend on
>> non-standard behaviour.
>
>  This extension is only used internally by QEMU

Let me elaborate: when a QEMP client sends us 'a' over the wire, the
parser rejects that as an error.  At least that's what we've been
promised when the extension was discussed.

>                                                 and we find it
> very convenient otherwise we would have to escape strings in
> dicts and lists, which is error prone and time consuming.

I doubt it would be error prone, but it would sure be annoying and hard
to read.  The readability argument is what convinced me.