From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1OBT2T-0006Co-JN for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 10 May 2010 09:28:53 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=49322 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OBT2N-0006AF-G0 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 10 May 2010 09:28:53 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OBT2F-0003Z4-3v for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 10 May 2010 09:28:47 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:20875) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OBT2E-0003Yr-T5 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 10 May 2010 09:28:39 -0400 Message-ID: <4BE80A04.9090705@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 16:28:36 +0300 From: Avi Kivity MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Registering buffers with a qdict References: <4BE3FD3F.4070606@siemens.com> <20100507100758.1050a374@redhat.com> <4BE421D9.30502@siemens.com> <20100507135902.2753bb4a@redhat.com> <4BE7E723.3000002@siemens.com> In-Reply-To: <4BE7E723.3000002@siemens.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Jan Kiszka Cc: qemu-devel , Luiz Capitulino On 05/10/2010 01:59 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: > > From a quick glance at the JSON spec, there is no room for a new type. I > think we have to overload an existing one and convert that into a > QBuffer (typically, we know the actual semantic). Hex string encoding is > most compact, so I went this road. Base64 is even more compact. > But I'm open to change it into a true > type if JSON actually allows it (or we are fine with breaking it). > That ruins any possibility of using a standard json encoder/decoder on the other end. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function