Re: [RFC PATCH] explicitly mark recursion count

Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-06-02T19:57:39Z

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On Wed, 02 Jun 2004 20:37:20 BST, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk said:

> Wrong. They are often passed as arguments to generic helpers, without
> being ever put into any structures.

At least those can *hopefully* be automatically detected by looking at the
function's definition. Are there any known cases where they're "passed
through" from caller to generic_a to generic_b which ends up calling the
function via pointer, or is it restricted to caller, generic_a, *(pointer)?

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