Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 13 Oct 2004 12:55:10 -0600 | | From | Chris Friesen <> | | Subject | Re: single linked list header in kernel? |
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Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> I dunno, though -- open-coding a singly-linked list isn't that much of a > problem; compared to a doubly-linked one, there's simply fewer things that > can go horribly wrong. :-/
True. This is likely why it hasn't yet been done.
I wonder how many places use the double-linked lists because they're there, not because they actually need them. If its significant, there could be some space savings due to only needing one pointer rather than two.
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