From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>,
Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Use a hex string (was: [PATCH] qemu: json: Fix parsing of integers >= 0x8000000000000000)
Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 00:02:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110523230222.GL969@shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110523151948.GJ27503@amd.home.annexia.org>
Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> The problem is to be able to send 64 bit memory and disk offsets
> faithfully. This doesn't just fail to solve the problem, it's
> actually going to make it a whole lot worse.
Such offsets would be so much more readable in hexadecimal.
So why not use a string "0xffff800012340000" instead?
That is universally Javascript compatible as well as much more
convenient for humans.
Or at least, *accept* a hex string wherever a number is required by
QMP (just because hex is convenient anyway, no compatibility issue),
and *emit* a hex string where the number may be out of Javascript's
unambiguous range, or where a hex string would make more sense anyway.
-- Jamie
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-23 23:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-20 18:03 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu: json: Fix parsing of integers >= 0x8000000000000000 Richard W.M. Jones
2011-05-20 18:11 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-05-20 18:36 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2011-05-20 18:37 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2011-05-20 18:47 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2011-05-20 21:19 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2011-05-23 13:04 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2011-05-23 13:33 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-05-23 13:39 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2011-05-23 13:40 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2011-05-23 13:45 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-05-23 14:14 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2011-05-23 15:03 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-05-23 15:41 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2011-05-23 14:20 ` Markus Armbruster
2011-05-23 13:50 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-05-23 14:02 ` Luiz Capitulino
2011-05-23 14:06 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-05-23 14:24 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2011-05-23 14:29 ` Markus Armbruster
2011-05-23 14:32 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2011-05-23 15:07 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-05-23 15:19 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2011-05-23 15:24 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-05-23 15:29 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2011-05-23 15:59 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-05-23 16:06 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2011-05-23 15:38 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2011-05-23 16:18 ` Markus Armbruster
2011-05-23 16:37 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-05-24 6:26 ` Markus Armbruster
2011-05-23 23:02 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2011-05-24 2:50 ` [Qemu-devel] Use a hex string Anthony Liguori
2011-05-24 5:30 ` Jamie Lokier
2011-05-23 13:38 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu: json: Fix parsing of integers >= 0x8000000000000000 Anthony Liguori
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