qobject: use a QObjectBase_ struct

By moving the base fields to a QObjectBase_, QObject can be a type
which also has a 'base' field. This allows writing a generic QOBJECT()
macro that will work with any QObject type, including QObject
itself. The container_of() macro ensures that the object to cast has a
QObjectBase_ base field, giving some type safety guarantees. QObject
must have no members but QObjectBase_ base, or else QOBJECT() breaks.

QObjectBase_ is not a typedef and uses a trailing underscore to make
it obvious it is not for normal use and to avoid potential abuse.

Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20180419150145.24795-3-marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/qapi/qmp/qlist.h b/include/qapi/qmp/qlist.h
index 5c673acb06..8d2c32ca28 100644
--- a/include/qapi/qmp/qlist.h
+++ b/include/qapi/qmp/qlist.h
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ typedef struct QListEntry {
 } QListEntry;
 
 struct QList {
-    QObject base;
+    struct QObjectBase_ base;
     QTAILQ_HEAD(,QListEntry) head;
 };