Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20171114180128.17076-2-mreitz@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Make visit_type_null() take an @obj argument like its buddies. This
helps keep the next commit simple.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
This may be used for deprecated object properties that are kept for
backwards compatibility.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Visiting a list when input is the empty string should result in an
empty list, not an error. Noticed when commit 3d089ce belatedly added
tests, but simply accepted as weird then. It's actually a regression:
broken in commit 74f24cb, v2.7.0. Fix it, and throw in another test
case for empty string.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1490026424-11330-2-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Fix the design flaw demonstrated in the previous commit: new method
check_list() lets input visitors report that unvisited input remains
for a list, exactly like check_struct() lets them report that
unvisited input remains for a struct or union.
Implement the method for the qobject input visitor (straightforward),
and the string input visitor (less so, due to the magic list syntax
there). The opts visitor's list magic is even more impenetrable, and
all I can do there today is a stub with a FIXME comment. No worse
than before.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1488544368-30622-26-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
The string input visitor tries to cope with null input. Null input
isn't used anywhere, and isn't covered by tests. Unsurprisingly, it
doesn't fully work: start_list() crashes because it passes the input
via parse_str() to strtoll() unchecked.
Make string_input_visitor_new() assert its argument isn't null, and
drop the code trying to deal with null input.
The opts visitor crashes when you try to actually visit something with
null input. Make opts_visitor_new() assert its argument isn't null,
mostly for clarity.
qobject_input_visitor_new() already asserts its argument isn't null.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1488544368-30622-17-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com>
visit_optional() is to be called only between visit_start_struct() and
visit_end_struct(). Visitors that don't support struct visits,
i.e. don't implement start_struct(), end_struct(), have no use for it.
Clarify documentation.
The string input visitor doesn't support struct visits. Its
parse_optional() is therefore useless. Drop it.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1488544368-30622-16-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com>
Now that we have a polymorphic visit_free(), we no longer need
string_input_visitor_cleanup(); which in turn means we no longer
need to return a subtype from string_input_visitor_new() nor a
public upcast function.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1465490926-28625-7-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Making each visitor provide its own (awkwardly-named) FOO_cleanup()
is unusual, when we can instead have a polymorphic visit_free()
interface. Over the next few patches, we can use the polymorphic
functions to eliminate the need for a FOO_get_visitor() function
for accessing specific visitor functionality, once everything can
be accessed directly through the Visitor* interfaces.
The dealloc visitor is the first one converted to completely use
the new entry point, since qapi_dealloc_visitor_cleanup() was the
only reason that qapi_dealloc_get_visitor() existed, and only
generated and testsuite code was even using it. With the new
visit_free() entry point in place, we no longer need to expose
the QapiDeallocVisitor subtype through qapi_dealloc_visitor_new(),
and can get by with less generated code, with diffs that look like:
| void qapi_free_ACPIOSTInfo(ACPIOSTInfo *obj)
| {
|- QapiDeallocVisitor *qdv;
| Visitor *v;
|
| if (!obj) {
| return;
| }
|
|- qdv = qapi_dealloc_visitor_new();
|- v = qapi_dealloc_get_visitor(qdv);
|+ v = qapi_dealloc_visitor_new();
| visit_type_ACPIOSTInfo(v, NULL, &obj, NULL);
|- qapi_dealloc_visitor_cleanup(qdv);
|+ visit_free(v);
|}
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1465490926-28625-5-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Rather than making the dealloc visitor track of stack of pointers
remembered during visit_start_* in order to free them during
visit_end_*, it's a lot easier to just make all callers pass the
same pointer to visit_end_*. The generated code has access to the
same pointer, while all other users are doing virtual walks and
can pass NULL. The dealloc visitor is then greatly simplified.
All three visit_end_*() functions intentionally take a void**,
even though the visit_start_*() functions differ between void**,
GenericList**, and GenericAlternate**. This is done for several
reasons: when doing a virtual walk, passing NULL doesn't care
what the type is, but when doing a generated walk, we already
have to cast the caller's specific FOO* to call visit_start,
while using void** lets us use visit_end without a cast. Also,
an upcoming patch will add a clone visitor that wants to use
the same implementation for all three visit_end callbacks,
which is made easier if all three share the same signature.
For visitors with already track per-object state (the QMP visitors
via a stack, and the string visitors which do not allow nesting),
add an assertion that the caller is indeed passing the same
pointer to paired calls.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1465490926-28625-4-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Users of struct Range mess liberally with its members, which makes
refactoring hard. Create a set of methods, and convert all users to
call them instead of accessing members. The methods have carefully
worded contracts, and use assertions to check them.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Calling our function g_list_insert_sorted_merged is a misnomer,
since we are NOT writing a glib function. Furthermore, we are
making every caller pass the same comparator function of
range_merge(): any caller that would try otherwise would break
in weird ways since our internal call to ranges_can_merge() is
hard-coded to operate only on ranges, rather than paying
attention to the caller's comparator.
Better is to fix things so that callers don't have to care about
our internal comparator, by picking a function name and updating
the parameter type away from a gratuitous use of void*, to make
it obvious that we are operating specifically on a list of ranges
and not a generic list. Plus, refactoring the code here will
make it easier to plug a memory leak in the next patch.
range_compare() is now internal only, and moves to the .c file.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1464712890-14262-3-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
The semantics of the list visit are somewhat baroque, with the
following pseudocode when FooList is used:
start()
for (prev = head; cur = next(prev); prev = &cur) {
visit(&cur->value)
}
Note that these semantics (advance before visit) requires that
the first call to next() return the list head, while all other
calls return the next element of the list; that is, every visitor
implementation is required to track extra state to decide whether
to return the input as-is, or to advance. It also requires an
argument of 'GenericList **' to next(), solely because the first
iteration might need to modify the caller's GenericList head, so
that all other calls have to do a layer of dereferencing.
Thankfully, we only have two uses of list visits in the entire
code base: one in spapr_drc (which completely avoids
visit_next_list(), feeding in integers from a different source
than uint8List), and one in qapi-visit.py. That is, all other
list visitors are generated in qapi-visit.c, and share the same
paradigm based on a qapi FooList type, so we can refactor how
lists are laid out with minimal churn among clients.
We can greatly simplify things by hoisting the special case
into the start() routine, and flipping the order in the loop
to visit before advance:
start(head)
for (tail = *head; tail; tail = next(tail)) {
visit(&tail->value)
}
With the simpler semantics, visitors have less state to track,
the argument to next() is reduced to 'GenericList *', and it
also becomes obvious whether an input visitor is allocating a
FooList during visit_start_list() (rather than the old way of
not knowing if an allocation happened until the first
visit_next_list()). As a minor drawback, we now allocate in
two functions instead of one, and have to pass the size to
both functions (unless we were to tweak the input visitors to
cache the size to start_list for reuse during next_list, but
that defeats the goal of less visitor state).
The signature of visit_start_list() is chosen to match
visit_start_struct(), with the new parameters after 'name'.
The spapr_drc case is a virtual visit, done by passing NULL for
list, similarly to how NULL is passed to visit_start_struct()
when a qapi type is not used in those visits. It was easy to
provide these semantics for qmp-output and dealloc visitors,
and a bit harder for qmp-input (several prerequisite patches
refactored things to make this patch straightforward). But it
turned out that the string and opts visitors munge enough other
state during visit_next_list() to make it easier to just
document and require a GenericList visit for now; an assertion
will remind us to adjust things if we need the semantics in the
future.
Several pre-requisite cleanup patches made the reshuffling of
the various visitors easier; particularly the qmp input visitor.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1461879932-9020-24-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
As shown in the previous commit, the string input visitor was
treating bogus input as an empty list rather than an error.
Fix parse_str() to set errp, then the callers to exit early if
an error was reported.
Meanwhile, fix the testsuite to use the generated
qapi_free_int16List() instead of rolling our own, and to
validate the fixed behavior, while at the same time documenting
one more change that we'd like to make in a later patch (a
failed visit_start_list should guarantee a NULL pointer,
regardless of what things were on input).
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1461879932-9020-23-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Our existing input visitors were not very consistent on errors in a
function taking 'TYPE **obj'. These are start_struct(),
start_alternate(), type_str(), and type_any(). next_list() is
similar, but can't fail (see commit 08f9541). While all of them set
'*obj' to allocated storage on success, it was not obvious whether
'*obj' was guaranteed safe on failure, or whether it was left
uninitialized. But a future patch wants to guarantee that
visit_type_FOO() does not leak a partially-constructed obj back to
the caller; it is easier to implement this if we can reliably state
that input visitors assign '*obj' regardless of success or failure,
and that on failure *obj is NULL. Add assertions to enforce
consistency in the final setting of err vs. *obj.
The opts-visitor start_struct() doesn't set an error, but it
also was doing a weird check for 0 size; all callers pass in
non-zero size if obj is non-NULL.
The testsuite has at least one spot where we no longer need
to pre-initialize a variable prior to a visit; valgrind confirms
that the test is still fine with the cleanup.
A later patch will document the design constraint implemented
here.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1461879932-9020-3-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
[visit_start_alternate()'s assertion tightened, commit message tweaked]
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
We have three classes of QAPI visitors: input, output, and dealloc.
Currently, all implementations of these visitors have one thing in
common based on their visitor type: the implementation used for the
visit_type_enum() callback. But since we plan to add more such
common behavior, in relation to documenting and further refining
the semantics, it makes more sense to have the visitor
implementations advertise which class they belong to, so the common
qapi-visit-core code can use that information in multiple places.
A later patch will better document the types of visitors directly
in visitor.h.
For this patch, knowing the class of a visitor implementation lets
us make input_type_enum() and output_type_enum() become static
functions, by replacing the callback function Visitor.type_enum()
with the simpler enum member Visitor.type. Share a common
assertion in qapi-visit-core as part of the refactoring.
Move comments in opts-visitor.c to match the refactored layout.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1461879932-9020-2-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Make sure the error message for visit_type_uint64() gracefully
handles a NULL 'name' when called from the top level or a list
context, as not all the world behaves like glibc in allowing
NULL through a printf-family %s.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1461879932-9020-21-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Commit 57cb38b included qapi/error.h into qemu/osdep.h to get the
Error typedef. Since then, we've moved to include qemu/osdep.h
everywhere. Its file comment explains: "To avoid getting into
possible circular include dependencies, this file should not include
any other QEMU headers, with the exceptions of config-host.h,
compiler.h, os-posix.h and os-win32.h, all of which are doing a
similar job to this file and are under similar constraints."
qapi/error.h doesn't do a similar job, and it doesn't adhere to
similar constraints: it includes qapi-types.h. That's in excess of
100KiB of crap most .c files don't actually need.
Add the typedef to qemu/typedefs.h, and include that instead of
qapi/error.h. Include qapi/error.h in .c files that need it and don't
get it now. Include qapi-types.h in qom/object.h for uint16List.
Update scripts/clean-includes accordingly. Update it further to match
reality: replace config.h by config-target.h, add sysemu/os-posix.h,
sysemu/os-win32.h. Update the list of includes in the qemu/osdep.h
comment quoted above similarly.
This reduces the number of objects depending on qapi/error.h from "all
of them" to less than a third. Unfortunately, the number depending on
qapi-types.h shrinks only a little. More work is needed for that one.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
[Fix compilation without the spice devel packages. - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
By sticking the next pointer first, we don't need a union with
64-bit padding for smaller types. On 32-bit platforms, this
can reduce the size of uint8List from 16 bytes (or 12, depending
on whether 64-bit ints can tolerate 4-byte alignment) down to 8.
It has no effect on 64-bit platforms (where alignment still
dictates a 16-byte struct); but fewer anonymous unions is still
a win in my book.
It requires visit_next_list() to gain a size parameter, to know
what size element to allocate; comparable to the size parameter
of visit_start_struct().
I debated about going one step further, to allow for fewer casts,
by doing:
typedef GenericList GenericList;
struct GenericList {
GenericList *next;
};
struct FooList {
GenericList base;
Foo *value;
};
so that you convert to 'GenericList *' by '&foolist->base', and
back by 'container_of(generic, GenericList, base)' (as opposed to
the existing '(GenericList *)foolist' and '(FooList *)generic').
But doing that would require hoisting the declaration of
GenericList prior to inclusion of qapi-types.h, rather than its
current spot in visitor.h; it also makes iteration a bit more
verbose through 'foolist->base.next' instead of 'foolist->next'.
Note that for lists of objects, the 'value' payload is still
hidden behind a boxed pointer. Someday, it would be nice to do:
struct FooList {
FooList *next;
Foo value;
};
for one less level of malloc for each list element. This patch
is a step in that direction (now that 'next' is no longer at a
fixed non-zero offset within the struct, we can store more than
just a pointer's-worth of data as the value payload), but the
actual conversion would be a task for another series, as it will
touch a lot of code.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1455778109-6278-10-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
No backend was setting an error when ending the visit of a list or
implicit struct, or when moving to the next list node. Make the
callers a bit easier to follow by making this a part of the contract,
and removing the errp argument - callers can then unconditionally end
an object as part of cleanup without having to think about whether a
second error is dominated by a first, because there is no second
error.
A later patch will then tackle the larger task of splitting
visit_end_struct(), which can indeed set an error.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1454075341-13658-24-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
As explained in the previous patches, matching argument order of
'name, &value' to JSON's "name":value makes sense. However,
while the last two patches were easy with Coccinelle, I ended up
doing this one all by hand. Now all the visitor callbacks match
the main interface.
The compiler is able to enforce that all clients match the changed
interface in visitor-impl.h, even where two pointers are being
swapped, because only one of the two pointers is const (if that
were not the case, then C's looseness on treating 'char *' like
'void *' would have made review a bit harder).
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1454075341-13658-21-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Our qapi visitor contract supports multiple integer visitors,
but left the type_uint64 visitor as optional (falling back on
type_int64); which in turn can lead to awkward behavior with
numbers larger than INT64_MAX (the user has to be aware of
twos complement, and deal with negatives).
This patch does not address the disparity in handling large
values as negatives. It merely moves the fallback from uint64
to int64 from the visitor core to the visitors, where the issue
can actually be fixed, by implementing the missing type_uint64()
callbacks on top of the respective type_int64() callbacks, and
with a FIXME comment explaining why that's wrong.
With that done, we now have a type_uint64() callback in every
driver, so we can make it mandatory from the core. And although
the type_int64() callback can cover the entire valid range of
type_uint{8,16,32} on valid user input, using type_uint64() to
avoid mixed signedness makes more sense.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1454075341-13658-15-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
The qapi builtin type 'int' is basically shorthand for the type
'int64'. In fact, since no visitor was providing the optional
type_int64() callback, visit_type_int64() was just always falling
back to type_int(), cementing the equivalence between the types.
However, some visitors are providing a type_uint64() callback.
For purposes of code consistency, it is nicer if all visitors
use the paired type_int64/type_uint64 names rather than the
mismatched type_int/type_uint64. So this patch just renames
the signed int callbacks in place, dropping the type_int()
callback as redundant, and a later patch will focus on the
unsigned int callbacks.
Add some FIXMEs to questionable reuse of errp in code touched
by the rename, while at it (the reuse works as long as the
callbacks don't modify value when setting an error, but it's not
a good example to set) - a later patch will then fix those.
No change in functionality here, although further cleanups are
in the pipeline.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1454075341-13658-14-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
The macro DO_UPCAST() is incorrectly named: it converts from a
parent class to a derived class (which is a downcast). Better,
and more consistent with some of the other qapi visitors, is
to use the container_of() macro through a to_FOO() helper. Names
like 'to_ov()' may be a bit short, but for a static helper it
doesn't hurt too much, and matches existing practice in files
like qmp-input-visitor.c.
Our current definition of container_of() is weaker than
DO_UPCAST(), in that it does not require the derived class to
have Visitor as its first member, but this does not hurt our
usage patterns in qapi visitors.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1454075341-13658-3-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Clean up includes so that osdep.h is included first and headers
which it implies are not included manually.
This commit was created with scripts/clean-includes.
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1454089805-5470-8-git-send-email-peter.maydell@linaro.org
None of the visitor callbacks would set an error when testing
if an optional field was present; make this part of the interface
contract by eliminating the errp argument.
The resulting generated code has a nice diff:
|- visit_optional(v, &has_fdset_id, "fdset-id", &err);
|- if (err) {
|- goto out;
|- }
|+ visit_optional(v, &has_fdset_id, "fdset-id");
| if (has_fdset_id) {
| visit_type_int(v, &fdset_id, "fdset-id", &err);
| if (err) {
| goto out;
| }
| }
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1449033659-25497-9-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
These macros expand into error class enumeration constant, comma,
string. Unclean. Has been that way since commit 13f59ae.
The error class is always ERROR_CLASS_GENERIC_ERROR since the previous
commit.
Clean up as follows:
* Prepend every use of a QERR_ macro by ERROR_CLASS_GENERIC_ERROR, and
delete it from the QERR_ macro. No change after preprocessing.
* Rewrite error_set(ERROR_CLASS_GENERIC_ERROR, ...) into
error_setg(...). Again, no change after preprocessing.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Remove dead code. Reset errno to 0 before each strtoull call, as the
man page requires.
Reported-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
The following commits:
qapi: make string output visitor parse int list
qapi: make string input visitor parse int list
break with glib < 2.28 since they use the
new g_list_free_full function.
Open-code that to fix build on old systems.
Cc: Hu Tao <hutao@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hu Tao <hutao@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
MST: split up patch
Semantics of end_optional() differ subtly from the other end_FOO()
callbacks: when start_FOO() succeeds, the matching end_FOO() gets
called regardless of what happens in between. end_optional() gets
called only when everything in between succeeds as well. Entirely
undocumented, like all of the visitor API.
The only user of Visitor Callback end_optional() never did anything,
and was removed in commit 9f9ab46.
I'm about to clean up error handling in the generated visitor code,
and end_optional() is in my way. No users mean no test cases, and
making non-trivial cleanup transformations without test cases doesn't
strike me as a good idea.
Drop end_optional(), and rename start_optional() to optional(). We
can always go back to a pair of callbacks when we have an actual need.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de>
String based visitors provide a consistent interface for parsing
strings to C values, as well as consuming C values as strings.
They will be used to parse command-line options.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Max Reitz