Re: [Xen-devel] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 2/6] qdict: Add convenience helpers for wrapped puts

["Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Apr 04, 2017 at 05:41:08PM -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 01/19/2017 08:38 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> > On 01/19/2017 03:25 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> >> Eric Blake <eblake@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >>
> >>> Quite a few users of qdict_put() were manually wrapping a
> >>> non-QObject. We can make such call-sites shorter, by providing
> >>> common macros to do the tedious work.  Also shorten nearby
> >>> qdict_put_obj(,,QOBJECT()) sequences.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>> Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>
> >>> ---
> >>>
> >>> v2: rebase to current master
> >>>
> >>> I'm okay if you want me to break this patch into smaller pieces.
> >>
> >> I guess I'm okay with a single piece, but I'd like to know how you did
> >> the conversion.  Coccinelle?  Manually?
> > 
> > Manual, via grepping for put_obj.*QOBJECT. I'll see if I can do the same
> > under Coccinelle (at which point, committing the script will make it
> > easier to rerun cleanups if later code reintroduces poor usage
> > patterns), so maybe I have a v3 coming up.
> 
> I've got a Coccinelle patch (mostly) working now - but it has one
> shortfall - I found places in tests/check-qdict.c that coccinelle
> didn't, and traced it to the fact that our use of g_assert_cmpint(expr,
> ==, expr) throws off the coccinelle parser so badly that it silently
> ignores the entire function body containing the use of that macro.

Julia ^ is this a known issue?

If Eric is using the Fedora version of coccinelle, then he would be
using either 1.0.6 or 1.0.5.

> v3 will be posted soon, with the best of both worlds (coccinelle
> caught spots that I missed, not to mention recent code base changes;
> and my manual search found the spots in tests/ that coccinelle
> missed).

Rich.

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