From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] streq()
Date: 24 Sep 2002 10:21:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <amq6ud$h66$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.44.0209240731060.8824-100000@localhost.localdomain
Followup to: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209240731060.8824-100000@localhost.localdomain>
By author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> we should do something about these. list_add() is hard, while we could
> introduce a separate type for list heads, there are some valid uses of
> non-head list_add(). But perhaps those could be separated out.
>
A very, very long time ago, back in the 0.99.14 days, we actually
tried to switch to using a C++ compiler to compile the kernel, so we
could guarantee type-safe linkage. g++ sucked back then, so the
experiment was abandoned, but I don't know if there would be interest
in trying again.
-hpa
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-24 17:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-24 4:49 [PATCH] streq() Rusty Russell
2002-09-24 5:40 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-24 6:04 ` Rusty Russell
2002-09-24 6:24 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-24 7:28 ` Rusty Russell
2002-09-24 7:38 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-24 8:19 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-24 13:07 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-09-24 17:21 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2002-09-25 11:27 ` Daniel Egger
2002-09-25 11:45 ` Russell King
2002-09-25 12:38 ` Daniel Egger
2002-09-25 12:19 ` Michael Sinz
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