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From: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>
Date: Tue, 12 May 2020 08:04:39 +0200

> I will if you insist but would you mind sharing some details on why it
> was removed? To me it still makes more sense than storing the pointer
> to a structure in *that* structure.

Flexibility in implementation of where the private data is located
and how it is allocated.

And yes, I do insist.