Per the C++ standard, empty enum are ill-formed. Do not generate
them in order to avoid:
In file included from qga/qga-qapi-emit-events.c:14:
qga/qga-qapi-emit-events.h:20:1: error: empty enum is invalid
20 | } qga_QAPIEvent;
| ^
Reported-by: Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <phi...@linaro.org>
---
docs/devel/qapi-code-gen.rst | 6 +++---
scripts/qapi/schema.py | 5 ++++-
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/devel/qapi-code-gen.rst b/docs/devel/qapi-code-gen.rst
index 23e7f2fb1c..d684c7c24d 100644
--- a/docs/devel/qapi-code-gen.rst
+++ b/docs/devel/qapi-code-gen.rst
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ Syntax::
Member 'enum' names the enum type.
+Empty enumeration (no member) does not generate anything (not even
+constant PREFIX__MAX).
+
Each member of the 'data' array defines a value of the enumeration
type. The form STRING is shorthand for :code:`{ 'name': STRING }`. The
'name' values must be be distinct.
@@ -214,9 +217,6 @@ Example::
{ 'enum': 'MyEnum', 'data': [ 'value1', 'value2', 'value3' ] }
-Nothing prevents an empty enumeration, although it is probably not
-useful.
-
On the wire, an enumeration type's value is represented by its
(string) name. In C, it's represented by an enumeration constant.
These are of the form PREFIX_NAME, where PREFIX is derived from the
diff --git a/scripts/qapi/schema.py b/scripts/qapi/schema.py
index 207e4d71f3..28045dbe93 100644
--- a/scripts/qapi/schema.py
+++ b/scripts/qapi/schema.py
@@ -309,6 +309,7 @@ class QAPISchemaEnumType(QAPISchemaType):
def __init__(self, name, info, doc, ifcond, features, members, prefix):
super().__init__(name, info, doc, ifcond, features)
+ assert members
for m in members:
assert isinstance(m, QAPISchemaEnumMember)
m.set_defined_in(name)
@@ -1047,8 +1048,10 @@ def _make_implicit_object_type(self, name, info, ifcond,
role, members):
return name
def _def_enum_type(self, expr: QAPIExpression):
- name = expr['enum']
data = expr['data']
+ if not data:
+ return
+ name = expr['enum']
prefix = expr.get('prefix')
ifcond = QAPISchemaIfCond(expr.get('if'))
info = expr.info
--
2.38.1
