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Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:10:25 -0600
From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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To: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:01:22 -0600
> Anthony Liguori <aliguori@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Markus Armbruster wrote:
>>     
>>> Do we want to specify the base for numbers in the JSON?
>>>
>>> If yes, why not use decimal everywhere?
>>>
>>> Aside, if we use hexadecimal in JSON at all, then I'd prefer addresses
>>> to be hexadecimal.
>>>   
>>>       
>> Hexadecimal is not valid to represent numbers in JSON.
>>     
>
>  We can return a string.
>   

When it comes to returning u64s, we'll have to send these over the wire 
as s64s.  It's not ideal but it's the only way to support languages that 
don't distinguish between signed and unsigned types.

-- 
Regards,

Anthony Liguori