The code for visiting the base class of a child struct created
visit_type_Base_fields() which covers all fields of Base; while
the code for visiting the base class of a flat union created
visit_type_Union_fields() covering all fields of the base
except the discriminator. But since the base class includes
the discriminator of a flat union, we can just visit the entire
base, without needing a separate visit of the discriminator.
Not only is consistently visiting all fields easier to
understand, it lets us share code.
The generated code in qapi-visit.c loses several now-unused
visit_type_UNION_fields(), along with changes like:
|@@ -1654,11 +1557,7 @@ void visit_type_BlockdevOptions(Visitor
| if (!*obj) {
| goto out_obj;
| }
|- visit_type_BlockdevOptions_fields(v, obj, &err);
|- if (err) {
|- goto out_obj;
|- }
|- visit_type_BlockdevDriver(v, &(*obj)->driver, "driver", &err);
|+ visit_type_BlockdevOptionsBase_fields(v, (BlockdevOptionsBase **)obj, &err);
| if (err) {
| goto out_obj;
| }
and forward declarations where needed. Note that the cast of obj
to BASE ** is necessary to call visit_type_BASE_fields() (and we
can't use our upcast wrappers, because those work on pointers while
we have a pointer-to-pointer).
Backports commit 5c5e51a05b567fd48fb155d94ca6f7679dd0d478 from qemu
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