Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 14/18] rtc: add a dynamic property for retrieving the date

[Anthony Liguori]

On 12/02/2011 07:34 AM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> On 12/02/11 14:20, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > On 12/02/2011 06:35 AM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > > > The readme has quite a lot of detail about the syntax.  The parser is
> > > > pretty complete already.
> > > >
> > > > https://github.com/aliguori/qidl/blob/master/qc.md
> > >
> > > Ah, nice.  Any plans to support lists there, so it is possible to save
> > > the state of (multiple) in-flight transactions?
> >
> > I had support for lists locally and just pushed it.  It is based on
> > GSList and uses a marker to indicate the type.  So:
>
> We have qemu-queue.h, which unlike GSList is typesafe ...

qemu-queue would be extremely difficult to use because you need to encode 
information about how to walk the structure in the type.

Otherwise, you can't generate code to walk the structure.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> cheers,
>    Gerd