Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 10/11] qerror: switch to qapi generated error macros and table

[Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>]

Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> writes:

> Previous commits added qapi infrastructure to automatically generate
> qerror macros and the qerror table from qapi-schema-errors.json.
>
> This commit drops the current error macros from qerror.h and the error
> table from qerror.c and use the generated ones instead.
>
> Please, note that qapi-error.c is actually _included_ by qerror.c.
> This is hacky, but the alternative is to make the table private to
> qapi-error.c and generate functions to return table entries. I think that
> doesn't pay much off.

Functions?  Why can't you simply put

    const QErrorStringTable qerror_table[NUMBER_OF_ERRORS];

into qapi-errors.h?

With a literal number instead of NUMBER_OF_ERRORS.  If you suffer from
literal-phobia, you can also #define it instead.