Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] streq() | Date | 24 Sep 2002 10:21:17 -0700 |
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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.
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