From: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>

QEMU object model is scarse in documentation. Some calls are
recursive, and it might be hard to figure out even trivial issues.

We can avoid developers to waste time in a debugging session by
displaying a simple error message.

This commit is also similar to e02bdf1cecd2 ("Display more helpful
message when an object type is missing").

Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200121110349.25842-7-philmd@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
---
 qom/object.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/qom/object.c b/qom/object.c
index 36123fb..90155fa 100644
--- a/qom/object.c
+++ b/qom/object.c
@@ -173,7 +173,11 @@ static TypeImpl *type_get_parent(TypeImpl *type)
 {
     if (!type->parent_type && type->parent) {
         type->parent_type = type_get_by_name(type->parent);
-        g_assert(type->parent_type != NULL);
+        if (!type->parent_type) {
+            fprintf(stderr, "Type '%s' is missing its parent '%s'\n",
+                    type->name, type->parent);
+            abort();
+        }
     }
 
     return type->parent_type;
-- 
1.8.3.1