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From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: "J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] reduce sizeof(struct file)
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 01:19:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050924001958.GJ7992@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050924013021.1130f3c8@werewolf.able.es>

On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 01:30:21AM +0200, J.A. Magallon wrote:
> How about anonymous unions ? gcc-3.3.3 and above support them.
> Is 2.6 supposed to be built with 2.95 ?

NAK.  For one thing, yes, it is supposed to be built with 2.95.  For
another, they do not buy you anything - few enough places use either
field, so there is no point in hiding that union.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-09-24  0:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-23  8:34 How to Force PIO mode on sata promise (Linux 2.6.10) David Sanchez
2005-09-23  9:47 ` Clemens Koller
2005-09-23 10:02   ` [PATCH] reduce sizeof(struct file) Eric Dumazet
2005-09-23 10:05     ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-09-23 23:30       ` J.A. Magallon
2005-09-24  0:09         ` Jesper Juhl
2005-09-24  0:19         ` Al Viro [this message]
2005-09-24  3:43       ` Eric Dumazet
2005-09-25  1:43         ` Nick Piggin
2005-09-30  0:32         ` Paul E. McKenney

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