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>
diff --git a/scripts/qapi.py b/scripts/qapi.py
index 00a1620..7c50cc4 100644
--- a/scripts/qapi.py
+++ b/scripts/qapi.py
@@ -490,7 +490,7 @@
for (key, arg) in value.items():
check_name(expr_info, "Member of %s" % source, key,
allow_optional=allow_optional)
- if c_name(key, False).startswith('has_'):
+ if c_name(key, False) == 'u' or c_name(key, False).startswith('has_'):
raise QAPIExprError(expr_info,
"Member of %s uses reserved name '%s'"
% (source, key))