From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Dec 12 13: 0:23 2000 From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 12 13:00:21 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A06337B400; Tue, 12 Dec 2000 13:00:20 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA53113; Tue, 12 Dec 2000 16:00:03 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 16:00:03 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <200012122100.QAA53113@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: jhb@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: An opaque refcount type X-Newsgroups: mit.lcs.mail.freebsd-arch In-Reply-To: Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article you write: >an opaque refcount_t type. By definition, C typedefs can never be opaque. Only pointers to incomplete aggregates (i.e., `struct foo *' or `union bar *') are opaque in C. In any event, I think requiring a functional interface to reference counts is probably a Bad Idea. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message