On 9/14/19 10:34 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> check_union() checks the discriminator exists in base and makes sense.
> Two error messages mention the base.  These are broken for anonymous
> bases, as demonstrated by tests flat-union-invalid-discriminator and
> flat-union-invalid-if-discriminator.err.  The third one doesn't
> bother.
> 
> First broken when commit ac4338f8eb "qapi: Allow anonymous base for
> flat union" (v2.6.0) neglected to adjust the "not a member of base"
> error message.  Commit ccadd6bcba "qapi: Add 'if' to implicit struct
> members" (v4.0.0) then cloned the flawed error message.
> 
> Dumb them down not to mention the base.

A trick for good error reporting: deciding when "less is more" :)

> 
> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com>

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