Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v12 24/36] cpu: Convert CpuInfo into flat union

[Eric Blake]

On 02/02/2016 05:25 AM, James Hogan wrote:
> Hi Eric,
> 
> On 18 November 2015 at 08:52, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
>> +# An enumeration of cpu types that enable additional information during
>> +# @query-cpus.
>> +#
>> +# Since: 2.6
>> +##
>> +{ 'enum': 'CpuInfoArch',
>> +  'data': ['x86', 'sparc', 'ppc', 'mips', 'tricore', 'other' ] }
>> +

> 
> This is causing compilation issues on MIPS, because gcc bizarrely
> defines mips=1:
> 
> $ mips-img-linux-gnu-gcc -dM -E - </dev/null | grep '\bmips\b'
> #define mips 1

Not the first instance of namespace pollution.


> Any suggestions for a fix that is less ugly than this:

Yes, I'm posting the proper patch to poison QAPI 'mips' into C 'q_mips'
shortly.  That way, QMP remains backwards compatible (your approach did
not preserve that).

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