Paolo Bonzini f50cd85c84 rust: qom: add casting functionality ... Add traits that let client cast typecast safely between object types. In particular, an upcast is compile-time guaranteed to succeed, and a YOLO C-style downcast must be marked as unsafe. The traits are based on an IsA<> trait that declares what is a subclass of what, which is an idea taken from glib-rs (https://docs.rs/glib/latest/glib/object/trait.IsA.html). The four primitives are also taken from there (https://docs.rs/glib/latest/glib/object/trait.Cast.html). However, the implementation of casting itself is a bit different and uses the Deref trait. This removes some pointer arithmetic from the pl011 device; it is also a prerequisite for the definition of methods, so that they can be invoked on all subclass structs. This will use the IsA<> trait to detect the structs that support the methods. glib also has a "monadic" casting trait which could be implemented on Option (as in https://docs.rs/glib/latest/glib/object/trait.CastNone.html) and perhaps even Result. For now I'm leaving it out, as the patch is already big enough and the benefit seems debatable. Reviewed-by: Zhao Liu <zhao1.liu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>		2024-12-19 19:36:37 +01:00
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tests.rs	rust: qom: add casting functionality	2024-12-19 19:36:37 +01:00