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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] linux++: delete some forward declarations
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2024 17:28:31 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240613172831.5e7f762f@rorschach.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240613142110.30019a4084d922d63c6d4352@linux-foundation.org>

On Thu, 13 Jun 2024 14:21:10 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Jun 2024 16:10:12 -0400 Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> 
> > > And...  I'm a bit surprised that forward declarations are allowed in C.
> > > A billion years ago I used a C compiler which would use 16 bits for
> > > an enum if the enumted values would fit in 16 bits.  And it would use 32
> > > bits otherwise.  So the enumerated values were *required* for the
> > > compiler to be able to figure out the sizeof.  But it was a billion
> > > years ago.  
> > 
> > Well, I only looked at the one change in ftrace.h which has a
> > "struct seq_file;" that is not used anywhere else in the file, so that
> > one definitely can go.  
> 
> The risk is that something which includes ftrace.h is depending upon
> the enum declaration.

You mean forward struct declaration. And if so, good! it needs to be fixed ;-)

-- Steve

  reply	other threads:[~2024-06-13 21:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-06-13 19:22 [PATCH] linux++: delete some forward declarations Alexey Dobriyan
2024-06-13 19:34 ` Steven Rostedt
2024-06-13 20:04   ` Andrew Morton
2024-06-13 20:10     ` Steven Rostedt
2024-06-13 21:21       ` Andrew Morton
2024-06-13 21:28         ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2024-06-14  6:29       ` Alexey Dobriyan

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