[libvirt] [PATCH 5/5] Add a qemuMonitorGetMachines() method for query-machines command

[Eric Blake]

On 08/20/2012 10:57 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:

>>> +        if (STRNEQ_NULLABLE(info[i]->alias, (wantalias))) {             \
>>> +            virReportError(VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR,                      \
>>> +                           "alias %s is not %s",                        \
>>> +                           info[i]->alias, NULLSTR(wantalias));         \
>>> +            goto cleanup;                                               \
>>> +        }                                                               \
>>> +    } while (0)
>>> +
>>> +    CHECK(0, "pc-1.0", false, null);
>>
>> Can't you just s/null/NULL/ and avoid the intermediate variable?
> 
> I hit some GCC-wierdness when doing that:
> 
>   CC     qemumonitorjsontest-qemumonitorjsontest.o
> qemumonitorjsontest.c: In function 'testQemuMonitorJSONGetMachines':
> qemumonitorjsontest.c:289:5: error: null argument where non-null required (argument 1) [-Werror=nonnull]
> qemumonitorjsontest.c:289:5: error: null argument where non-null required (argument 1) [-Werror=nonnull]
> qemumonitorjsontest.c:289:5: error: null argument where non-null required (argument 2) [-Werror=nonnull]
> qemumonitorjsontest.c:289:5: error: null argument where non-null required (argument 2) [-Werror=nonnull]
> qemumonitorjsontest.c:289:5: error: null argument where non-null required (argument 1) [-Werror=nonnull]
> qemumonitorjsontest.c:289:5: error: null argument where non-null required (argument 1) [-Werror=nonnull]
> qemumonitorjsontest.c:289:5: error: null argument where non-null required (argument 2) [-Werror=nonnull]
> qemumonitorjsontest.c:289:5: error: null argument where non-null required (argument 2) [-Werror=nonnull]
> qemumonitorjsontest.c:289:5: error: invalid application of 'sizeof' to a void type [-Werror=pointer-arith]

That argues that our STRNEQ_NULLABLE and NULLSTR macros should be made a
bit smarter.  I'll play with it, to see if I can reproduce; what gcc
version were you using?

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake at redhat.com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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