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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 10/11] qerror: switch to qapi generated error ma


From: Markus Armbruster
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 10/11] qerror: switch to qapi generated error macros and table
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 18:05:45 +0200
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Luiz Capitulino <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 13:56:00 +0200
> Markus Armbruster <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Luiz Capitulino <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>> > Previous commits added qapi infrastructure to automatically generate
>> > qerror macros and the qerror table from qapi-schema-errors.json.
>> >
>> > This commit drops the current error macros from qerror.h and the error
>> > table from qerror.c and use the generated ones instead.
>> >
>> > Please, note that qapi-error.c is actually _included_ by qerror.c.
>> > This is hacky, but the alternative is to make the table private to
>> > qapi-error.c and generate functions to return table entries. I think that
>> > doesn't pay much off.
>> 
>> Functions?  Why can't you simply put
>> 
>>     const QErrorStringTable qerror_table[NUMBER_OF_ERRORS];
>> 
>> into qapi-errors.h?
>
> Because it's included by qerror.h, which is included by several files.

And what harm does the declaration of qerror_table[] to those files?

> I don't like much the idea of including a .c file, but on the other hand
> it's only included by qerror.c and qerror.c will probably die in the
> near future.
>
>> 
>> With a literal number instead of NUMBER_OF_ERRORS.  If you suffer from
>> literal-phobia, you can also #define it instead.



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