Re: 2.4.20pre10aa1

["J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>]

On 2002.10.12 Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
[...]
>> >
>> >why would you want to remove the list_t declaration? I don't see it.
>> >list_t is just like task_t for struct task_struct etc...
>> >
>> 
>> [..] The main
>> argument was that you can't pre-declare a task_t, but you can
>> with a struct task_t.
>
>so you want to remove task_t too? If yes just grep -v typedef all over
>the tree, and at least it'll be a somehow more coherent decsion ;).
>It's not that list_t forbids you to use struct list_head for
>predeclarations.
>

There is something I do not understand:

struct tst {
	struct x_t	*x;
}

does not need any predeclaraion, tested with gcc -Wall, 2.96, 3.0.4, 3.2.

struct tst {
	x_t	*x;
}

needs it, but you can predeclare a

typedef struct x_t x_t;

if do not want the full include. So I really do not know why everybody
agreed on removing it.

???

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