Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] win32: use PRId64 instead of %lld

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 06:56:10AM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 01/26/2010 06:37 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>>>   This extension is only used internally by QEMU
>>>      
>> Let me elaborate: when a QEMP client sends us 'a' over the wire, the
>> parser rejects that as an error.  At least that's what we've been
>> promised when the extension was discussed.
>>    
>
> No, that's never been the case.  I don't see the point.  JSON allows it.  
> If a client comes to depend on it, so what?
>
> Regards,
>
> Anthony Liguori


Then we'll have to support it forever. Asking clients to only depend on
valid JSON will make sure we can use json library in the future, as well
as allow easier debugging etc.

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