Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] audio: Convert use of atoi to qemu_strtoi

[nee]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 2:47 PM, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 03/16/2018 09:40 AM, Nia Alarie wrote:
>>
>> If qemu_strtoi indicates an error, return the default value.
>
>
> Would it be better to diagnose the error instead of silently returning a
> default value?
>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Nia Alarie <address@hidden>
>> ---
>>   audio/audio.c | 3 +--
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/audio/audio.c b/audio/audio.c
>> index 6eccdb17ee..d6e91901aa 100644
>> --- a/audio/audio.c
>> +++ b/audio/audio.c
>> @@ -335,9 +335,8 @@ static int audio_get_conf_int (const char *key, int
>> defval, int *defaultp)
>>       char *strval;
>>         strval = getenv (key);
>> -    if (strval) {
>> +    if (strval && !qemu_strtoi(strval, NULL, 10, &val)) {
>>           *defaultp = 0;
>> -        val = atoi (strval);
>>           return val;
>>       }
>>       else {
>>
>
> --
> Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
> Red Hat, Inc.           +1-919-301-3266
> Virtualization:  qemu.org | libvirt.org

Possibly, while writing these patches I was just going by what was
already there. I can see how that would be good.

Should the code provide a warning to the user and continue with the
default, or provide the warning and exit? And is it more correct to
use dolog() or AUD_log() in this context?