On 08/19/2017 11:34 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 18/08/2017 23:33, John Snow wrote:
>>> Before the next few patches
>>> get rid of the qtest_* layer, we first need to update the remaining
>>> few spots that were using the long form where we can instead rely
>>> on the short form.
>>>
>> Not a big fan of globals and implicit state, but I do at least agree
>> that we don't need two sets of functions.
> 
> I agree with using the short form where possible, but I disagree on
> removing the long forms.  Rather, global_qtest in my opinion should have
> been static (though I'm not proposing that you do this); inlining the
> wrappers is not needed for performance.

But no one outside of libqtest.c is using the long form.  Maintaining a
long form that isn't used is counter-productive, if the short form is
good enough for everything we need.

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