Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 12:12:41 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=E9rard_Roudier?= <groudier@club-internet.fr>, Jake Burkholder <jake@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha interrupt.c machdep.c mp_mac Message-ID: <200101111912.f0BJCfs36487@aslan.scsiguy.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 11 Jan 2001 10:55:38 PST." <XFMail.010111105538.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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>These variables are magic. A developer can find out that they are magic in on >e >of two ways: > >1) Use a special macro that acknowledges that they are magic, and have the >compile break if they don't so that they know there is something they need to >take into account. > >2) Go memorize all aforementioned headers to know that these variables are >magic. There is no reason that for two to be the case. We are only talking about a naming difference. Having the headers cleaned up is a different argument. >I prefer the interface 1) for this. Do you prefer 2)? I prefer "curproc" to PCPU_GET(curproc). Curproc already tells me that this variable must be per-cpu. -- Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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