Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 14/32] qapi: Rework generated code for built-in types

[Markus Armbruster]

Marc-André Lureau <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi
>
> On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 5:25 PM, Markus Armbruster <address@hidden> wrote:
>> qapi-types.py and qapi-visit.py generate some C code for built-in
>> types.  To make this work with multiple schemas, we generate code for
>> built-ins into .c files only when the user asks for it with -b.  The
>> user is responsible for linking exactly one set of files generated
>> with -b per program.  We generate code for built-ins into .h
>> regardless of -b, but guard it with a preprocessor symbol.
>>
>> This is cumbersome and inflexible.  Move the code generated for
>> built-in types into separate files builtin-qapi-{types,visit}.{c,h}.
>> Run qapi-types.py and qapi-visit.py without a schema argument to
>> generate them.  Drop their option -b.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <address@hidden>
>
>
> Good idea!
> I think I would still prefer to see a seperate argument to generate
> builtin files (rather than absence of schema), but this is minor
> detail.

An option to generate built-ins would have to conflict with -p and the
positional argument.  I tried the stupidest solution that could possibly
work first.

> Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <address@hidden>

Thanks!