On 2012-01-31 17:12, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 01/31/2012 08:58 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> On 01/31/2012 03:51 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> BTW, this is yet another benefit of making structures public. You can
>>>>> take the
>>>>> address of a child and set link fields directly without accessors.
>>> Well, that has two sides. We introduced properties to avoid this direct
>>> messing.
>>>
>>> Does linking also work without exposing internals?
>>
>> Perhaps it doesn't need to expose internals. Just like we create interfaces
>> automatically when creating a parent object, perhaps we can create children
>> as
>> well, like
>>
>> TypeInfo type_piix3 = {
>> ...
>> .children = {
>> { "pic[0]", TYPE_I8259, offsetof(PIIX3, pic[0]) },
>> { "pic[1]", TYPE_I8259, offsetof(PIIX3, pic[1]) },
>> { "pit, TYPE_I8254, offsetof(PIIX3, pit) },
>> { "rtc", TYPE_RTC, offsetof(PIIX3, rtc) },
>
>
> Eeek. I absolutely want to avoid any offset based interfaces.
Why?
>
> You can just as well do:
>
> void object_property_add_child(Object *obj, const char *name,
> const char *type, Object **child);
>
> It could then do:
>
> *child = object_new(type);
How does this resolve where the link is stored in the opaque state
structure?
Jan
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