Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] qapi: add visit_start_union and visit_end_union

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

Il 12/09/2014 18:17, Michael Roth ha scritto:
> Quoting Paolo Bonzini (2014-09-12 10:39:49)
>> Il 12/09/2014 17:34, Michael Roth ha scritto:
>>>
>>> { 'union': 'UserDefUnion',
>>>   'base': 'UserDefZero',
>>>   'data': { 'a' : 'int', 'b' : 'UserDefB' } }
>>>
>>> If UserDefUnion.a is 0, UserDefUnion.data will cast it to a NULL value and
>>> cause the output visitor to bail, when really it should just be left to
>>> continue on serializing the integer.
>>
>> In the case of dealloc, that'd be okay because the dealloc visit would
>> do nothing for KIND_A, right?
> 
> Yup that should be fine for the dealloc visitor. With this series we never
> actually visit the int in this case though due to this quirk. But that's
> okay because it's not an allocated type and the dealloc visitor doesn't need
> to do anything anyway. (It's a bit wonky, but since that reliance on
> implementation details now lives in the visitor implementation of
> visit_start_union it's reasonably contained at least)
> 
> But if we're looking at extending visit_start_union for use in something like
> an output visitor, this would need to be addressed some other way, since
> skipping scalar fields because they're 0 is a bug there.

I guess it would be something like

   has_data = (kind < KIND_MAX) && (is_scalar[kind] || !!data)

That could be done in qapi-visit.py if we were so inclined...

Paolo