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From: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
To: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: include guard weirdness
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 14:20:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53BFD6A8.5080803@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a98gnmeg.fsf@rasmusvillemoes.dk>

On 2014-07-11 13:51, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> gcc/cpp claims to be smart enough to recognize the include guard idiom,
> and most of the time this works very well: the second and subsequent
> #includes do not even cause the file to be opened (thus saving at least
> open+fstat+read+close). Except in a few cases, which are so common that
> it might be worth investigating.
> 
> For example, linux/mm.h often shows up exactly twice in strace output;
> another very common header such as linux/types.h always occurs only
> once.

My guess is that <linux/mm.h> includes a header which at some point
includes <linux/mm.h> again.

Michal


  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-11 12:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-11 11:51 include guard weirdness Rasmus Villemoes
2014-07-11 12:20 ` Michal Marek [this message]
2014-07-12 11:11   ` Rasmus Villemoes

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