Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 00/22] Extend remote generator to generate function bodies too

Richard W.M. Jones suggested [1] that the code that directly deals with the XDR protocol should be generated. The remote_generate_stubs.pl script already generates all the headers, just the bodies in the daemon and remote driver are manually written. But most of the functions just follow simple patterns. So I extended the generator to exploit this patterns and move 11 kLOC code from manually written to generated code. During this I came a cross many small variations and problems in the XDR protocol. For example, NWFilterDefineXML has a flags parameter in the public API, but it's not transferred in the XDR protocol. Another things is the variations in the usage of unsigned VS signed types. This comes in two forms. public API VS XDR procotol and in between different functions. For example, some functions use int for the flags paramater and some use unsigned int. This results in quite a lot of special case handling in the generator.