Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/armbru/tags/pull-qapi-2020-03-17' into staging

QAPI patches for 2020-03-17

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Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/armbru/tags/pull-qapi-2020-03-17' into staging

QAPI patches for 2020-03-17

# gpg: Signature made Tue 17 Mar 2020 20:50:54 GMT
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* remotes/armbru/tags/pull-qapi-2020-03-17: (30 commits)
net: Track netdevs in NetClientState rather than QemuOpt
net: Complete qapi-fication of netdev_add
qmp: constify QmpCommand and list
qapi: Mark deprecated QMP parts with feature 'deprecated'
qapi: New special feature flag "deprecated"
qapi: Replace qmp_dispatch()'s TODO comment by an explanation
qapi: Simplify how qmp_dispatch() gets the request ID
qapi: Simplify how qmp_dispatch() deals with QCO_NO_SUCCESS_RESP
qapi: Inline do_qmp_dispatch() into qmp_dispatch()
qapi: Add feature flags to struct members
qapi/schema: Call QAPIDoc.connect_member() in just one place
qapi/schema: Rename QAPISchemaObjectType{Variant,Variants}
qapi/schema: Reorder classes so related ones are together
qapi/schema: Change _make_features() to a take feature list
qapi/introspect: Factor out _make_tree()
qapi/introspect: Rename *qlit* to reduce confusion
qapi: Consistently put @features parameter right after @ifcond
qapi: Add feature flags to remaining definitions
qapi/schema: Clean up around QAPISchemaEntity.connect_doc()
tests/test-qmp-event: Check event is actually emitted
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Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>

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qapi: Add feature flags to remaining definitions

In v4.1.0, we added feature flags just to struct types (commit
6a8c0b5102^..f3ed93d545), to satisfy an immediate need (commit
c9d4070991 "file-posix:

qapi: Add feature flags to remaining definitions

In v4.1.0, we added feature flags just to struct types (commit
6a8c0b5102^..f3ed93d545), to satisfy an immediate need (commit
c9d4070991 "file-posix: Add dynamic-auto-read-only QAPI feature"). In
v4.2.0, we added them to commands (commit 23394b4c39 "qapi: Add
feature flags to commands") to satisfy another immediate need (commit
d76744e65e "qapi: Allow introspecting fix for savevm's cooperation
with blockdev").

Add them to the remaining definitions: enumeration types, union types,
alternate types, and events.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200317115459.31821-13-armbru@redhat.com>

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Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/armbru/tags/pull-qapi-2019-10-22-v3' into staging

QAPI patches for 2019-10-22

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QAPI patches for 2019-10-22

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* remotes/armbru/tags/pull-qapi-2019-10-22-v3:
qapi: Allow introspecting fix for savevm's cooperation with blockdev
tests/qapi-schema: Cover feature documentation comments
tests: qapi: Test 'features' of commands
qapi: Add feature flags to commands
tests/qapi-schema: Tidy up test output indentation
qapi: Clear scripts/qapi/doc.py executable bits again
qapi: Split up scripts/qapi/common.py
qapi: Move gen_enum(), gen_enum_lookup() back to qapi/types.py
qapi: Speed up frontend tests
qapi: Eliminate accidental global frontend state
qapi: Store pragma state in QAPISourceInfo, not global state
qapi: Don't suppress doc generation without pragma doc-required

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>

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qapi: Speed up frontend tests

"make check-qapi-schema" takes around 10s user + system time for me.
With -j, it takes a bit over 3s real time. We have worse tests. It's
still annoying when you work

qapi: Speed up frontend tests

"make check-qapi-schema" takes around 10s user + system time for me.
With -j, it takes a bit over 3s real time. We have worse tests. It's
still annoying when you work on the QAPI generator.

Some 1.4s user + system time is consumed by make figuring out what to
do, measured by making a target that does nothing. There's nothing I
can do about that right now. But let's see what we can do about the
other 8s.

Almost 7s are spent running test-qapi.py for every test case, the rest
normalizing and diffing test-qapi.py output. We have 190 test cases.

If I downgrade to python2, it's 4.5s, but python2 is a goner.

Hacking up test-qapi.py to exit(0) without doing anything makes it
only marginally faster. The problem is Python startup overhead.

Our configure puts -B into $(PYTHON). Running without -B is faster:
4.4s.

We could improve the Makefile to run test cases only when the test
case or the generator changed. But I'm after improvement in the case
where the generator changed.

test-qapi.py is designed to be the simplest possible building block
for a shell script to do the complete job (it's actually a Makefile,
not a shell script; no real difference). Python is just not meant for
that. It's for bigger blocks.

Move the post-processing and diffing into test-qapi.py, and make it
capable of testing multiple schema files. Set executable bits while
there.

Running it once per test case now takes slightly longer than 8s. But
running it once for all of them takes under 0.2s.

Messing with the Makefile to run it only on the tests that need
retesting is clearly not worth the bother.

Expected error output changes because the new normalization strips off
$(SRCDIR)/tests/qapi-schema/ instead of just $(SRCDIR)/.

The .exit files go away, because there is no exit status to test
anymore.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20191018074345.24034-5-armbru@redhat.com>

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Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/armbru/tags/pull-qapi-2019-09-28' into staging

QAPI patches for 2019-09-28

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Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/armbru/tags/pull-qapi-2019-09-28' into staging

QAPI patches for 2019-09-28

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* remotes/armbru/tags/pull-qapi-2019-09-28: (27 commits)
qapi: Improve source file read error handling
qapi: Improve reporting of redefinition
qapi: Improve reporting of missing documentation comment
qapi: Eliminate check_keys(), rename check_known_keys()
qapi: Improve reporting of invalid 'if' further
qapi: Avoid redundant definition references in error messages
qapi: Improve reporting of missing / unknown definition keys
qapi: Improve reporting of invalid flags
qapi: Improve reporting of invalid 'if' errors
qapi: Move context-free checking to the proper place
qapi: Move context-sensitive checking to the proper place
qapi: Inline check_name() into check_union()
qapi: Plumb info to the QAPISchemaMember
qapi: Make check_type()'s array case a bit more obvious
qapi: Move check for reserved names out of add_name()
qapi: Report invalid '*' prefix like any other invalid name
qapi: Use check_name_str() where it suffices
qapi: Improve reporting of invalid name errors
qapi: Reorder check_FOO() parameters for consistency
qapi: Improve reporting of member name clashes
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Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>

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qapi: Avoid redundant definition references in error messages

Many error messages refer to the offending definition even though
they're preceded by an "in definition" line. Rephrase them.

Signed-o

qapi: Avoid redundant definition references in error messages

Many error messages refer to the offending definition even though
they're preceded by an "in definition" line. Rephrase them.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20190927134639.4284-22-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>

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qapi: Improve reporting of missing / unknown definition keys

Have check_exprs() call check_keys() later, so its error messages gain
an "in definition" line.

Both check_keys() and check_name_is_str(

qapi: Improve reporting of missing / unknown definition keys

Have check_exprs() call check_keys() later, so its error messages gain
an "in definition" line.

Both check_keys() and check_name_is_str() check the definition's name
is a string. Since check_keys() now runs after check_name_is_str()
rather than before, its check is dead. Bury it. Checking values in
check_keys() is unclean anyway.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20190927134639.4284-21-armbru@redhat.com>

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qapi: Change frontend error messages to start with lower case

Starting error messages with a capital letter complicates things when
text can get interpolated both at the beginning and in the middle

qapi: Change frontend error messages to start with lower case

Starting error messages with a capital letter complicates things when
text can get interpolated both at the beginning and in the middle of
an error message. The next patch will do that. Switch to lower case
to keep it simpler.

For what it's worth, the GNU Coding Standards advise the message
"should not begin with a capital letter when it follows a program name
and/or file name, because that isn’t the beginning of a sentence. (The
sentence conceptually starts at the beginning of the line.)"

While there, avoid breaking lines containing multiple arguments in the
middle of an argument.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20190927134639.4284-7-armbru@redhat.com>

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Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/armbru/tags/pull-qapi-2018-12-13-v2' into staging

QAPI patches for 2018-12-13

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Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/armbru/tags/pull-qapi-2018-12-13-v2' into staging

QAPI patches for 2018-12-13

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* remotes/armbru/tags/pull-qapi-2018-12-13-v2: (32 commits)
qapi: add conditions to REPLICATION type/commands on the schema
qapi: add more conditions to SPICE
qapi: add condition to variants documentation
qapi: add 'If:' condition to struct members documentation
qapi: add 'If:' condition to enum values documentation
qapi: Add #if conditions to generated code members
qapi: add 'if' to alternate members
qapi: add 'if' to union members
qapi: Add 'if' to implicit struct members
qapi: add a dictionary form for TYPE
qapi-events: add 'if' condition to implicit event enum
qapi: add 'if' to enum members
qapi: add a dictionary form with 'name' key for enum members
qapi: improve reporting of unknown or missing keys
qapi: factor out checking for keys
tests: print enum type members more like object type members
qapi: change enum visitor and gen_enum* to take QAPISchemaMember
qapi: Do not define enumeration value explicitly
qapi: break long lines at 'data' member
qapi: rename QAPISchemaEnumType.values to .members
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Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>

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qapi: improve reporting of unknown or missing keys

Report the set of missing or unknown keys. And give a hint about the
accepted keys.

The error message for multiple meta type members (visible in
t

qapi: improve reporting of unknown or missing keys

Report the set of missing or unknown keys. And give a hint about the
accepted keys.

The error message for multiple meta type members (visible in
tests/qapi-schema/double-type.err) is not improved.

Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20181213123724.4866-6-marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>

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Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/armbru/tags/pull-qapi-2017-03-16' into staging

QAPI patches for 2017-03-16

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QAPI patches for 2017-03-16

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* remotes/armbru/tags/pull-qapi-2017-03-16: (49 commits)
qapi: Fix a misleading parser error message
qapi: Make pylint a bit happier
qapi: Drop unused .check_clash() parameter schema
qapi: union_types is a list used like a dict, make it one
qapi: struct_types is a list used like a dict, make it one
qapi: enum_types is a list used like a dict, make it one
qapi: Factor add_name() calls out of the meta conditional
qapi: Simplify what gets stored in enum_types
qapi: Drop unused variable events
qapi: Eliminate check_docs() and drop QAPIDoc.expr
qapi: Fix detection of bogus member documentation
tests/qapi-schema: Improve coverage of bogus member docs
tests/qapi-schema: Rename doc-bad-args to doc-bad-command-arg
qapi: Move empty doc section checking to doc parser
qapi: Improve error message on @NAME: in free-form doc
qapi: Move detection of doc / expression name mismatch
qapi: Fix detection of doc / expression mismatch
tests/qapi-schema: Improve doc / expression mismatch coverage
qapi2texi: Use category "Object" for all object types
qapi2texi: Generate descriptions for simple union tags
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Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>

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qapi: Back out doc comments added just to please qapi.py

This reverts commit 3313b61's changes to tests/qapi-schema/, except
for tests/qapi-schema/doc-*.

We could keep some of these doc comments to

qapi: Back out doc comments added just to please qapi.py

This reverts commit 3313b61's changes to tests/qapi-schema/, except
for tests/qapi-schema/doc-*.

We could keep some of these doc comments to serve as positive test
cases. However, they don't actually add to what we get from doc
comment use in actual schemas, as we we don't test output matches
expectations, and don't systematically cover doc comment features.
Proper positive test coverage would be nice.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1489582656-31133-4-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com>

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Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/armbru/tags/pull-qapi-2017-01-16' into staging

QAPI patches for 2017-01-16

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QAPI patches for 2017-01-16

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* remotes/armbru/tags/pull-qapi-2017-01-16: (180 commits)
build-sys: add qapi doc generation targets
build-sys: add txt documentation rules
build-sys: use a generic TEXI2MAN rule
build-sys: remove dvi doc generation
build-sys: use --no-split for info
docs: add qemu logo to pdf
qapi: add qapi2texi script
qmp-events: move 'MIGRATION_PASS' doc to schema
qmp-events: move 'DUMP_COMPLETED' doc to schema
qmp-events: move 'MEM_UNPLUG_ERROR' doc to schema
qmp-events: move 'VSERPORT_CHANGE' doc to schema
qmp-events: move 'QUORUM_REPORT_BAD' doc to schema
qmp-events: move 'QUORUM_FAILURE' doc to schema
qmp-events: move 'GUEST_PANICKED' doc to schema
qmp-events: move 'BALLOON_CHANGE' doc to schema
qmp-events: move 'ACPI_DEVICE_OST' doc to schema
qmp-events: move 'MIGRATION' doc to schema
qmp-events: move 'SPICE_MIGRATE_COMPLETED' doc to schema
qmp-events: move 'SPICE_DISCONNECTED' doc to schema
qmp-events: move 'SPICE_INITIALIZED' doc to schema
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Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>

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qapi: add qapi2texi script

As the name suggests, the qapi2texi script converts JSON QAPI
description into a texi file suitable for different target
formats (info/man/txt/pdf/html...).

It parses the

qapi: add qapi2texi script

As the name suggests, the qapi2texi script converts JSON QAPI
description into a texi file suitable for different target
formats (info/man/txt/pdf/html...).

It parses the following kind of blocks:

Free-form:

##
# = Section
# == Subsection
#
# Some text foo with *emphasis*
# 1. with a list
# 2. like that
#
# And some code:
# | $ echo foo
# | -> do this
# | <- get that
#
##

Symbol description:

##
# @symbol:
#
# Symbol body ditto ergo sum. Foo bar
# baz ding.
#
# @param1: the frob to frobnicate
# @param2: #optional how hard to frobnicate
#
# Returns: the frobnicated frob.
# If frob isn't frobnicatable, GenericError.
#
# Since: version
# Notes: notes, comments can have
# - itemized list
# - like this
#
# Example:
#
# -> { "execute": "quit" }
# <- { "return": {} }
#
##

That's roughly following the following EBNF grammar:

api_comment = "##\n" comment "##\n"
comment = freeform_comment | symbol_comment
freeform_comment = { "# " text "\n" | "#\n" }
symbol_comment = "# @" name ":\n" { member | tag_section | freeform_comment }
member = "# @" name ':' [ text ] "\n" freeform_comment
tag_section = "# " ( "Returns:", "Since:", "Note:", "Notes:", "Example:", "Examples:" ) [ text ] "\n" freeform_comment
text = free text with markup

Note that the grammar is ambiguous: a line "# @foo:\n" can be parsed
both as freeform_comment and as symbol_comment. The actual parser
recognizes symbol_comment.

See docs/qapi-code-gen.txt for more details.

Deficiencies and limitations:
- the generated QMP documentation includes internal types
- union type support is lacking
- type information is lacking in generated documentation
- doc comment error message positions are imprecise, they point
to the beginning of the comment.
- a few minor issues, all marked TODO/FIXME in the code

Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20170113144135.5150-16-marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
[test-qapi.py tweaked to avoid trailing empty lines in .out]
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>

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Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/armbru/tags/pull-qmp-2015-05-05' into staging

drop qapi nested structs

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drop qapi nested structs

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* remotes/armbru/tags/pull-qmp-2015-05-05: (40 commits)
qapi: Check for member name conflicts with a base class
qapi: Support (subset of) \u escapes in strings
qapi: Tweak doc references to QMP when QGA is also meant
qapi: Drop dead visitor code related to nested structs
qapi: Drop support for inline nested types
qapi: Drop inline nested structs in query-pci
qapi: Drop inline nested struct in query-version
qapi: Drop tests for inline nested structs
qapi: Merge UserDefTwo and UserDefNested in tests
qapi: Forbid 'type' in schema
qapi: Use 'struct' instead of 'type' in schema
qapi: Document 'struct' metatype
qapi: Prefer 'struct' over 'type' in generator
qapi: More rigorous checking for type safety bypass
qapi: Whitelist commands that don't return dictionary
qapi: Require valid names
qapi: More rigourous checking of types
qapi: Add some type check tests
qapi: Unify type bypass and add tests
qapi: Allow true, false and null in schema json
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Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>

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qapi: Better error messages for bad expressions

The previous commit demonstrated that the generator overlooked some
fairly basic broken expressions:
- missing metataype
- metatype key has a non-stri

qapi: Better error messages for bad expressions

The previous commit demonstrated that the generator overlooked some
fairly basic broken expressions:
- missing metataype
- metatype key has a non-string value
- unknown key in relation to the metatype
- conflicting metatype (this patch treats the second metatype as an
unknown key of the first key visited, which is not necessarily the
first key the user typed)

Add check_keys to cover these situations, and update testcases to
match. A couple other tests (enum-missing-data, indented-expr) had
to change since the validation added here occurs so early.
Conversely, changes to ident-with-escape results show that we still
have problems where our handling of escape sequences differs from
true JSON, which will matter down the road if we allow arbitrary
default string values for optional parameters (but for now is not
too bad, as we currently can avoid unicode escaping as we don't
need to represent anything beyond C identifier material).

While valid .json files won't trigger any of these cases, we might
as well be nicer to developers that make a typo while trying to add
new QAPI code.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>

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qapi: Use 'alternate' to replace anonymous union

Previous patches have led up to the point where I create the
new meta-type "'alternate':'Foo'". See the previous patches
for documentation; I intent

qapi: Use 'alternate' to replace anonymous union

Previous patches have led up to the point where I create the
new meta-type "'alternate':'Foo'". See the previous patches
for documentation; I intentionally split as much work into
earlier patches to minimize the size of this patch, but a lot
of it is churn due to testsuite fallout after updating to the
new type.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>

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qapi: Segregate anonymous unions into alternates in generator

Special-casing 'discriminator == {}' for handling anonymous unions
is getting awkward; since this particular type is not always a
dictio

qapi: Segregate anonymous unions into alternates in generator

Special-casing 'discriminator == {}' for handling anonymous unions
is getting awkward; since this particular type is not always a
dictionary on the wire, it is easier to treat it as a completely
different class of type, "alternate", so that if a type is listed
in the union_types array, we know it is not an anonymous union.

This patch just further segregates union handling, to make sure that
anonymous unions are not stored in union_types, and splitting up
check_union() into separate functions. A future patch will change
the qapi grammar, and having the segregation already in place will
make it easier to deal with the distinct meta-type.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>

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qapi: Tighten checking of unions

Previous commits demonstrated that the generator had several
flaws with less-than-perfect unions:
- a simple union that listed the same branch twice (or two variant

qapi: Tighten checking of unions

Previous commits demonstrated that the generator had several
flaws with less-than-perfect unions:
- a simple union that listed the same branch twice (or two variant
names that map to the same C enumerator, including the implicit
MAX sentinel) ended up generating invalid C code
- an anonymous union that listed two branches with the same qtype
ended up generating invalid C code
- the generator crashed on anonymous union attempts to use an
array type
- the generator was silently ignoring a base type for anonymous
unions
- the generator allowed unknown types or nested anonymous unions
as a branch in an anonymous union

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>

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qapi: Add some union tests

Demonstrate that the qapi generator doesn't deal well with unions
that aren't up to par. Later patches will update the expected
reseults as the generator is made stricter.

qapi: Add some union tests

Demonstrate that the qapi generator doesn't deal well with unions
that aren't up to par. Later patches will update the expected
reseults as the generator is made stricter. A few tests work
as planned, but most show poor or missing error messages.

Of particular note, qapi-code-gen.txt documents 'base' only for
flat unions, but the tests here demonstrate that we currently allow
a 'base' to a simple union, although it is exercised only in the
testsuite. Later patches will remove this undocumented feature, to
give us more flexibility in adding other future extensions to union
types. For example, one possible extension is the idea of a
type-safe simple enum, where added fields tie the discriminator to
a user-defined enum type rather than creating an implicit enum from
the names in 'data'. But adding such safety on top of a simple
enum with a base type could look ambiguous with a flat enum;
besides, the documentation also mentions how any simple union can
be represented by an equivalent flat union. So it will be simpler
to just outlaw support for something we aren't using.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>

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