I'm going to fix the JSON parser to recognize null. The obvious
representation of JSON null as (QObject *)NULL doesn't work, because
the parser already uses it as an error value. Perhaps we should
change it to free NULL for null, but that's more than I can do right
now. Create a special null QObject instead.
The existing QDict, QList, and QString all represent something that
is a pointer in C and could therefore be associated with NULL. But
right now, all three of these sub-types are always non-null once
created, so the new null sentinel object is intentionally unrelated
to them.
Backports commit 481b002cc81ed7fc7b06e32e9d4d495d81739d14 from qemu
Adding an assertion to qobject_decref() will ensure that a
programming error causing use-after-free will result in
immediate failure (provided no other thread has started
using the memory) instead of silently attempting to wrap
refcnt around and leaving the problem to potentially bite
later at a harder point to diagnose.
Backports commit cc9f60d4a2a4bf2578a9309a18f1c4602c9f5ce7 from qemu
