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From: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 17/21] qapi: Drop unused non-strict qobject
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To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> writes:

> On 23/02/2017 22:45, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>> The split between tests/test-qobject-input-visitor.c and
>> tests/test-qobject-input-strict.c now makes less sense than ever.  The
>> next commit will take care of that.
>
> I'm actually adding a use for non-strict visitors (and one that makes
> sense IMHO, with comments, testcases and all that :)).  See
> https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg432069.html.

I replied.

> For what it's worth, however, I believe that even non-strict visits
> should detect unvisited list tails.

Bit of an asymmetry.  Not sure it matters, because to not visit list
tails, you have to put in some effort.