Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC v3 02/32] qapi: New QAPISchema intermediate reperesentation

[Eric Blake]

On 08/31/2015 12:09 PM, Markus Armbruster wrote:

>>>>>
>>>>> since we don't allow 2D arrays?
>>>>
>>>> If the generators actually rely on it, yes.

> The appended experimental frontend patch passes "make check".  Looks
> like the backends are just fine with arrays of arrays.  I'll therefore
> refrain from adding "element type isn't array" assertions to backends.
> 
> Since there's plenty of QAPI work on list already, I'll shelve this
> patch for now.  We can revisit nested arrays later.

Another thing to think about if we allow nested arrays: patch 31/32 maps
'uint8' to 'int', and ['uint8'] to ['int'], but leaves [['uint8']]
untouched.  We'd have to add a while loop in qapi-introspect.py to
ensure we drill down through all levels of an array.

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