Re: Is there no way to shared code with Linux and other OSes?

["Kevin D. Kissell" <kevink@paralogos.com>]

Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Nov 2008, Kevin D. Kissell wrote:
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>> [This should be good for some useless weekend flaming.]
>>     
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> Yeah! ;-)
>
>   
>> Chad Reese wrote:
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Don't blame Chad for this quote, it was me!
>> to move away from such arbitrary dogmatism.  The argument given for banning
>> typedefs altogether is that nested typedefs are confusing to programmers.  I
>>     
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> I thought the main reason was that you can't have forward declarations of
> typedefs, while you can have for structs.
>   
That's a better argument than the one in the HTML version of 
Documentation/CodingStyle.txt that I had bookmarked (which was what I 
cited).  Interestingly, if I look at the *current* Linux 
Documentation/CodingStyle.txt for 2.6.28-rc6, the blanket interdiction 
of typedefs is no longer there!  Things *have* evolved, as I said they'd 
have to, to recognize 5 (a good Illuminati number) cases where typedefs 
are permitted.  Superficially, based on Chad's description (I admit that 
I haven't been reviewing his patches) the Cavium case would seem to fall 
into the first category. Is the MIPS Linux community now some kind of 
ultra-orthodox sub-sect of the Linux cult? ;o)

          Regards,

          Kevin K.