Unicorn CPU emulator framework (ARM, AArch64, M68K, Mips, Sparc, X86)
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qapi: Prefer typesafe upcasts to qapi base classes
A previous patch (commit 1e6c1616) made it possible to
directly cast from a qapi flat union type to its base type.
However, it requires the use of a C cast, which turns off
compiler type-safety checks. Fortunately, no such casts
exist, just yet.

Regardless, add inline type-safe wrappers named
qapi_FOO_base() for any union type FOO that has a base,
which can be used for a safer upcast, and enhance the
testsuite to cover the new functionality.

A future patch will extend the upcast support to structs,
where such conversions do exist already.

Note that C makes const-correct upcasts annoying because
it lacks overloads; these functions cast away const so that
they can accept user pointers whether const or not, and the
result in turn can be assigned to normal or const pointers.
Alternatively, this could have been done with macros, but
type-safe macros are hairy, and not worthwhile here.

This patch just adds upcasts. None of our code needed to
downcast from a base qapi class to a child. Also, in the
case of grandchildren (such as BlockdevOptionsQcow2), the
caller will need to call two functions to get to the inner
base (although it wouldn't be too hard to generate a
qapi_FOO_base_base() if desired). If a user changes qapi
to alter the base class hierarchy, such as going from
'A -> C' to 'A -> B -> C', it will change the type of
'qapi_C_base()', and the compiler will point out the places
that are affected by the new base.

One alternative was proposed, but was deemed too ugly to use
in practice: the generators could output redundant
information using anonymous types:
| struct Child {
| union {
| struct {
| Type1 parent_member1;
| Type2 parent_member2;
| };
| Parent base;
| };
| };
With that ugly proposal, for a given qapi type, obj->member
and obj->base.member would refer to the same storage; allowing
convenience in working with members without needing 'base.'
allowing typesafe upcast without needing a C cast by accessing
'&obj->base', and allowing downcasts from the parent back to
the child possible through container_of(obj, Child, base).

Backports commit 30594fe1cd4355626e73b80645428105d0df3cf6 from qemu
2018-02-19 19:14:03 -05:00
bindings link to Crystal binding 2017-12-23 00:26:40 +08:00
docs Added note about installing tests dependencies on Mac OS X. Added note about tests failing when required architecture support is disabled in build. (#908) 2017-10-12 19:56:00 +08:00
include target-i386: Correct unicorn macro 2018-02-19 01:00:47 -05:00
msvc qapi: Create simple union type member earlier 2018-02-19 18:57:56 -05:00
qemu qapi: Prefer typesafe upcasts to qapi base classes 2018-02-19 19:14:03 -05:00
samples Fixed register mistake in comments (#894) 2017-09-17 16:40:01 +07:00
tests add 64-bit test demonstrating setting MSRs and FS/GS segments (#901) 2017-09-29 04:26:23 +08:00
.appveyor.yml MSYS test (#852) 2017-06-25 10:11:35 +08:00
.gitignore arm64eb: add support for ARM64 big endian. 2017-04-24 23:30:01 +08:00
.travis.yml use new travis osx image and brew (#935) 2018-01-05 10:29:49 +08:00
AUTHORS.TXT import 2015-08-21 15:04:50 +08:00
Brewfile Update Brewfile 2017-09-30 17:36:44 +07:00
ChangeLog update ChangeLog 2017-04-20 13:28:02 +08:00
config.mk Fix document file extension 2016-08-08 17:33:49 +09:00
COPYING import 2015-08-21 15:04:50 +08:00
COPYING.LGPL2 LGPL2 for all header files under include/unicorn/ 2017-12-16 10:08:42 +08:00
COPYING_GLIB glib_compat: add COPYING_GLIB 2016-12-27 10:15:08 +08:00
CREDITS.TXT update CREDITS.TXT 2017-04-25 12:56:47 +08:00
install-cmocka-linux.sh Start moving examples in S files (#851) 2017-06-25 10:14:22 +08:00
list.c callback to count number of instructions in uc_emu_start() should be executed first. fix #727 2017-06-16 13:22:38 +08:00
make.sh Added MSVC support for arm64eb. 2017-04-25 14:23:58 +10:00
Makefile crypto: introduce new module for computing hash digests 2018-02-17 15:23:17 -05:00
msvc.bat add msvc.bat 2017-04-21 15:35:40 +08:00
pkgconfig.mk bump extra version to 2 2017-04-21 15:30:40 +08:00
README.md add Clojure 2017-12-23 00:32:33 +08:00
uc.c uc: Handle freeing of multiple address spaces 2018-02-18 21:36:50 -05:00
windows_export.bat Make the call out to visual studio extremely resilient 2017-01-02 03:32:48 -08:00

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Unicorn is a lightweight, multi-platform, multi-architecture CPU emulator framework based on QEMU.

Unicorn offers some unparalleled features:

  • Multi-architecture: ARM, ARM64 (ARMv8), M68K, MIPS, SPARC, and X86 (16, 32, 64-bit)
  • Clean/simple/lightweight/intuitive architecture-neutral API
  • Implemented in pure C language, with bindings for Crystal, Clojure, Visual Basic, Perl, Rust, Ruby, Python, Java, .NET, Go, Delphi/Free Pascal and Haskell.
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