From cd50a2564560986e865ff64fa73b59d2564076f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 21:50:14 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] qapi: Special case c_name() for empty type

Commit 7ce106a rendered QAPISchemaObjectType.c_name() redundant,
since it now does nothing more than delegate to its superclass.
However, rather than deleting it, we can restore part of the
assertion that was removed in that commit, to prove that we never
emit the empty type directly in generated code, but rather
special-case it as a built-in that makes other aspects of code
generation easier to reason about.

Reported-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1468468228-27827-4-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
---
 scripts/qapi.py | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/scripts/qapi.py b/scripts/qapi.py
index 0635bbb0c3..68ee31903e 100644
--- a/scripts/qapi.py
+++ b/scripts/qapi.py
@@ -1000,6 +1000,7 @@ def is_implicit(self):
         return self.name.startswith('q_')
 
     def c_name(self):
+        assert self.name != 'q_empty'
         return QAPISchemaType.c_name(self)
 
     def c_type(self):