qemu-e2k/tests/qapi-schema/reserved-member-u.json
Eric Blake 5e59baf90a qapi: Reserve 'u' member name
Now that we have separated union tag values from colliding with
non-variant C names, by naming the union 'u', we should reserve
this name for our use.  Note that we want to forbid 'u' even in
a struct with no variants, because it is possible for a future
qemu release to extend QMP in a backwards-compatible manner while
converting from a struct to a flat union.  Fortunately, no
existing clients were using this member name.  If we ever find
the need for QMP to have a member 'u', we could at that time
relax things, perhaps by having c_name() munge the QMP member to
'q_u'.

Note that we cannot forbid 'u' everywhere (by adding the
rejection code to check_name()), because the existing QKeyCode
enum already uses it; therefore we only reserve it as a struct
type member name.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1445898903-12082-24-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2015-11-02 08:30:28 +01:00

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# Potential C member name collision
# We reject use of 'u' as a member name, to allow it for internal use in
# putting union branch members in a separate namespace from QMP members.
# This is true even for non-unions, because it is possible to convert a
# struct to flat union while remaining backwards compatible in QMP.
# TODO - we could munge the member name to 'q_u' to avoid the collision
{ 'struct': 'Oops', 'data': { 'u': 'str' } }