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From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Registering buffers with a qdict
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To: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
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Hi Luiz,

what is the recommended way of pushing larger buffers (up to 64K so far)
into a qdict? QLIST of QINT (one per byte) looks a bit heavy. I thought
about hex-encoding the content first (series of "%02X"), then
registering it as QSTRING. Or should we introduce a new type, QBUFFER?

Jan

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