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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>
To: Peter Chubb <peter@chubb.wattle.id.au>,
	Thunder from the hill <thunder@lightweight.ods.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][2.5] Single linked lists for Linux, overly complicated v2
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 21:48:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E17w6WZ-0005pB-00@starship> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15763.55020.35426.721691@wombat.chubb.wattle.id.au>

> What is the problem these lists are intended to solve?

That's what I kept asking myself when I wrote the orginal push/pop
macros.  My conclusion was that there is no worthwhile expression of
these things in C.  Writing those macros was just something I had
to do so I could wallow in the ugliness and stop thinking "maybe
these things should be generic".

-- 
Daniel

  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-09-30 19:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <924963807@toto.iv>
2002-09-27  3:56 ` [PATCH][2.5] Single linked lists for Linux, overly complicated v2 Peter Chubb
2002-09-27  7:27   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2002-09-27 14:56   ` Thunder from the hill
2002-09-30 19:48   ` Daniel Phillips [this message]
     [not found] <20020926142547.N13817@bitchcake.off.net>
2002-09-26 18:45 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-09-26 19:29   ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-26 19:43     ` Thunder from the hill
2002-09-26 20:00       ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-26 20:10         ` Thunder from the hill
2002-09-26 21:13         ` Thunder from the hill
2002-09-26 21:19           ` Thunder from the hill
2002-09-27  0:57       ` Zach Brown
2002-09-27 20:08         ` Thunder from the hill
2002-09-27 20:39           ` Zach Brown
2002-09-27 20:52             ` Thunder from the hill
2002-09-28  9:45         ` Thunder from the hill
2002-09-30 19:37         ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-30 20:04           ` Zach Brown
     [not found]             ` <E17w7N8-0005px-00@starship>
2002-09-30 20:50               ` Zach Brown
2002-10-01 16:05             ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-26 19:49     ` David B. Stevens
2002-09-26 17:41 Lightweight Patch Manager
2002-09-26 17:53 ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-26 18:26   ` Thunder from the hill

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