Re: [libvirt] FYI: qemu silently clipping large integers in JSON protocol

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 08:20:33PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> This thread may be of interest:
> 
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2011-05/threads.html#02162
> 
> Currently, qemu silently clips any JSON integer in the range
> 0x8000_0000_0000_0000 - 0xffff_ffff_ffff_ffff (all numbers in this
> range will be clipped to 0x7fff_ffff_ffff_ffff == LLONG_MAX).
> 
> This basically could affect any libvirt code in this file which uses
> the "U:..." prefix as far as I can tell:
> 
> http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=blob;f=src/qemu/qemu_monitor_json.c;hb=HEAD

Reinventing the wheel allows to make the same mistakes multiple times :-)

XPath Number IMHO got this right by referencing IEEE 754
  but then
XSLT made the fatal mistake of referencing the JDK 1.1 w.r.t. behaviour
when serializing back (and reimplementing in C was a nightmare)

  Funny how people bashing technology N-1 manage to reproduce the same
mistake or worse when designing N

Daniel

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