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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Jay Denebeim <denebeim@deepthot.org>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: coding style question
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 20:28:45 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <403D4BCD.2010407@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0402251128430.6557-100000@dent.deepthot.org>

Two reasons I can think of off the top of my head:
* POSIX prefers "struct foo" as opposed to "foo" or "foo_t"

* typedefs obscure the fact that a data structure is in fact a 
structure, and not a native machine type.  Typically typedefs are best 
used for discrete elements those contents are either opaque or a single 
value.

	Jeff




  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-02-26  1:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-25 18:16 coding style question Jay Denebeim
2004-02-25 18:25 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-02-25 18:40   ` Jay Denebeim
2004-02-25 19:29     ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-02-25 19:37       ` Jay Denebeim
2004-02-26  0:02         ` Bryan Henderson
2004-02-25 22:40     ` Patrick Mansfield
2004-02-26 16:09       ` Clay Haapala
2004-02-26  1:28     ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-02-09 10:32 Coding " Pavel Pisa
2007-02-09 11:18 ` Jesper Juhl
2007-02-09 16:02 ` Stefan Richter
2007-02-09 20:46 ` Haavard Skinnemoen

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