Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] qom: Replace "automatic arrayification"

[Markus Armbruster]

Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> writes:

> On 12/11/2014 18:08, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>> "Automatic arrayification" is a convenience feature for creating a
>> bunch of properties with a common type, accessors and so forth, named
>> in a peculiar way: "foo[0]", "foo[1]", ...  It's implemented by making
>> property names ending with "[*]" magical.  The magic is uncalled for,
>> as names can be just as well generated separately from adding
>> properties.
>> 
>> See also
>> https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-10/msg00623.html
>
> I dislike having the caller free the property name.  It is decent as you
> used it here, but it won't be usable if we later try and avoid making
> all memory region names array-ified.
>
> I like the idea, but the API is just too ugly. :(  Unfortunately I have
> nothing better to propose.

For what it's worth, three out of four uses already need to free,
because they append "[*]" to an argument string.

Can you explain what you mean by "avoid making all memory region names
array-ified", and why my API won't be usable for that?