Re: Odd square bracket encoding in QOM names

[Peter Maydell]

On Tue, 30 Nov 2021 at 08:36, Mark Cave-Ayland
<mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk> wrote:
> Has there been a recent change as to how square brackets are encoded within 
> QOM
> names? I noticed that the output has changed here in the "info qom-tree" 
> output in
> qemu-system-m68k for the q800 machine.
>
> The q800 machine has a set of 256 memory region aliases that used to appear 
> in the
> "info qom-tree" output as:
>
>      /mac_m68k.io[100] (memory-region)
>      /mac_m68k.io[101] (memory-region)
>      /mac_m68k.io[102] (memory-region)
>
> but they now appear as:
>
>      /mac_m68k.io\x5b100\x5d[0] (memory-region)
>      /mac_m68k.io\x5b101\x5d[0] (memory-region)
>      /mac_m68k.io\x5b102\x5d[0] (memory-region)

I looked at info qom-tree for an Arm machine, and the [..] seem to be
OK there. I tried to test with q800 but got stuck on finding a
command line to get it to run. Do you have repro instructions?

thanks
-- PMM