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| -rw-r--r-- | scripts/qapi-types.py | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/qapi-types.py b/scripts/qapi-types.py index 82141cd..8444f98 100644 --- a/scripts/qapi-types.py +++ b/scripts/qapi-types.py @@ -219,6 +219,14 @@ struct %(name)s ''', discriminator_type_name=c_name(discriminator_type_name)) + # FIXME: What purpose does data serve, besides preventing a union that + # has a branch named 'data'? We use it in qapi-visit.py to decide + # whether to bypass the switch statement if visiting the discriminator + # failed; but since we 0-initialize structs, and cannot tell what + # branch of the union is in use if the discriminator is invalid, there + # should not be any data leaks even without a data pointer. Or, if + # 'data' is merely added to guarantee we don't have an empty union, + # shouldn't we enforce that at .json parse time? ret += mcgen(''' union { /* union tag is @%(c_name)s */ void *data; |
