Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 28 Oct 2007 13:04:29 +0000 | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] proc_fs.h redux |
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On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 12:59:52PM +0100, Bernhard Walle wrote: > * Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> [2007-10-28 11:34]: > > > > If you go down that route, you end up with _lots_ of circular > > dependencies - header file X needs Y needs Z which needs X. We've > > been there, several times. It very quickly becomes quite > > unmaintainable - you end up with hard to predict behaviour from > > include files. > > > > The only realistic solution is to use forward declarations. > > In header files, yes. But that's not true for implementation files.
I don't think that needs saying - it's quite obvious. You can't access the contents of structures without their definitions being available.
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