Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 09:53:27 +0900 (JST) From: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp> To: phk@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: <sys/queue.h> Message-ID: <Pine.SV4.3.93.961021094920.20316A-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp> In-Reply-To: <24020.845822819@critter.tfs.com>
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For a good explanation of why you only want to use typedefs for scalar
types and function types see "Expert C Programming" by Van der Linden,
SunPress. It's a biased book, but it does contain a lot of good stuff on
C.
Regards,
Mike Hancock
On Sun, 20 Oct 1996, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> As much as I like this file there's one detail that I hate:
>
> /*
> * Singly-linked List definitions.
> */
> #define SLIST_HEAD(name, type) \
> struct name { \
> - struct type *slh_first; /* first element */ \
> + type *slh_first; /* first element */ \
> }
>
> If I have something like this:
>
> typedef struct geom_req_s geom_req;
>
> struct geom_req_s {
> ...
> };
>
> How can I add a any of the types from <sys/types.h> to this data-type
> in a clean fashion ? All other use the typedef, but for the queues
> I have to use the struct name.
>
> Is it too late to fix this oversight in <sys/queue.h> ?
>
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