Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 21:35:50 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Bosko Milekic <bmilekic@technokratis.com> Cc: Chad David <davidc@acns.ab.ca>, <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: MEXTFREE Message-ID: <20011222213422.P7862-100000@gamplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <20011222050320.A77143@technokratis.com>
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On Sat, 22 Dec 2001, Bosko Milekic wrote: > On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 12:54:16AM -0700, Chad David wrote: > > MEXTFREE results in a call to _mext_free() which is only defined within > > subr_mbuf.c, and is not static. Should the prototype be moved into > > sys/mbuf.h, or should MEXTFREE be moved into subr_mbuf.c, or is it ok > > like this? > > It should stay like this. The easy (macro) case deals with only the > reference count issue. We only call the function if we really have to > free the object (i.e. ref count is dropped to zero). But clients that use MEXTFREE (if any) see the function call, so they need a prototype in scope. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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