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SubjectRe: [PATCH][2.5] Single linked lists for Linux, overly complicated v2
Hi,

On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Peter Chubb wrote:
> What is the problem these lists are intended to solve?

Reduction of effort in the place where we only have single-direction
lists, such as stacks and the scheduler. (That is, whereever we don't need
to step back.)

> There's no point in adding general infrastructure that has no immediate
> uses -- it just ends up mouldering in a corner, (like the generic
> hashing code linux/ghash.h which has been in the kernel for 4 or 5
> years, and still has *no* uses.)

Wasn't it already removed?

Thunder
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assert(typeof((fool)->next) == typeof(fool)); /* wrong */

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