On Fri Jul 8 10:37:10 EDT 2005, [email protected] wrote:
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>
> On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Russ Cox wrote:
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> > Nonsense. There are plenty of typedefs in Linux.
>
> for scalar types, sure. They're all over the place. Did you look any
> deeper than the grep | wc?
>
> What is being proposed is a typedef for something that might or might not
> be a struct, depending on architecture. I'll be interested to see if that
> flies. Go for it.
>
> ron
There are actually more 'struct' typedefs in the linux header files
than Russ found in the .c files:
ethel% pwd
/n/other/jmk/linux-2.6.9/include
ethel% grep 'typedef.*{' */*.h|wc
1351 5593 62194
ethel%
e.g. linux/spinlock.h:
#if (__GNUC__ > 2)
typedef struct { } spinlock_t;
#define SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED (spinlock_t) { }
#else
typedef struct { int gcc_is_buggy; } spinlock_t;
#define SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED (spinlock_t) { 0 }
#endif
