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From: Colin D Bennett <colin@gibibit.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 08:57:33 -0700

> Probably passing a pointer to a local structure is the easiest way
> to do it in most cases if the iteration function needs to access
> some state, right?

Right.

The biggest surprise for me, easily, when reading the grub2 sources
for the first time was seeing all of this masterbation with nested
functions.