include: move typeof_strip_qual to compiler.h, use it in QAPI_LIST_LENGTH()

The typeof_strip_qual() is most useful for the atomic fetch-and-modify
operations in atomic.h, but it can be used elsewhere as well.  For example,
QAPI_LIST_LENGTH() assumes that the argument is not const, which is not a
requirement.

Move the macro to compiler.h and, while at it, move it under #ifndef
__cplusplus to emphasize that it uses C-only constructs.  A C++ version
of typeof_strip_qual() using type traits is possible[1], but beyond the
scope of this patch because the little C++ code that is in QEMU does not
use QAPI.

The patch was tested by changing the declaration of strv_from_str_list()
in qapi/qapi-type-helpers.c to:

    char **strv_from_str_list(const strList *const list)

This is valid C code, and it fails to compile without this change.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20240624205647.112034-1-flwu@google.com/

Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Manos Pitsidianakis <manos.pitsidianakis@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Manos Pitsidianakis <manos.pitsidianakis@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/qapi/util.h b/include/qapi/util.h
index 20dfea8a54..b8254247b8 100644
--- a/include/qapi/util.h
+++ b/include/qapi/util.h
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ int parse_qapi_name(const char *name, bool complete);
 #define QAPI_LIST_LENGTH(list)                                      \
     ({                                                              \
         size_t _len = 0;                                            \
-        typeof(list) _tail;                                         \
+        typeof_strip_qual(list) _tail;                              \
         for (_tail = list; _tail != NULL; _tail = _tail->next) {    \
             _len++;                                                 \
         }                                                           \