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authorPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>2017-06-01 16:39:16 +0100
committerPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>2017-06-01 16:39:16 +0100
commit43771d5d92312504305c19abe29ec5bfabd55f01 (patch)
tree9dc7719fb3b71f42f669b190126b1cf4731a1d08 /util
parentc077a998eb3fcae2d048e3baeb5bc592d30fddde (diff)
parentc0644771ebedbd8f47f3c24816445e30111d226b (diff)
Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/armbru/tags/pull-qapi-2017-05-31' into staging
QAPI patches for 2017-05-31 # gpg: Signature made Wed 31 May 2017 18:06:39 BST # gpg: using RSA key 0x3870B400EB918653 # gpg: Good signature from "Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>" # gpg: aka "Markus Armbruster <armbru@pond.sub.org>" # Primary key fingerprint: 354B C8B3 D7EB 2A6B 6867 4E5F 3870 B400 EB91 8653 * remotes/armbru/tags/pull-qapi-2017-05-31: qapi: Reject alternates that can't work with keyval_parse() tests/qapi-schema: Avoid 'str' in alternate test cases qapi: Document visit_type_any() issues with keyval input qobject-input-visitor: Reject non-finite numbers with keyval Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'util')
-rw-r--r--util/keyval.c10
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/util/keyval.c b/util/keyval.c
index 93d5db6b59..7dbda62305 100644
--- a/util/keyval.c
+++ b/util/keyval.c
@@ -65,11 +65,11 @@
* denote numbers, true, false or null. The special QObject input
* visitor returned by qobject_input_visitor_new_keyval() mostly hides
* this by automatically converting strings to the type the visitor
- * expects. Breaks down for alternate types and type 'any', where the
- * visitor's expectation isn't clear. Code visiting such types needs
- * to do the conversion itself, but only when using this keyval
- * visitor. Awkward. Alternate types without a string member don't
- * work at all.
+ * expects. Breaks down for type 'any', where the visitor's
+ * expectation isn't clear. Code visiting 'any' needs to do the
+ * conversion itself, but only when using this keyval visitor.
+ * Awkward. Note that we carefully restrict alternate types to avoid
+ * similar ambiguity.
*
* Additional syntax for use with an implied key:
*