Subject: Re: NetBSD master CVS tree commits
To: None <is@Beverly.Rhein.DE>
From: Justin T. Gibbs <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org>
List: source-changes
Date: 05/19/1996 08:35:46
>Justin T. Gibbs (gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org) wrote, commenting a commit
>by Charles Hannum:
>
>
>: >Add a SIMPLEQ type, cloned from TAILQ, but with only a single pointer in ea
>ch
>: >element.
>:
>: Was there a reason for choosing different terminology then FreeBSD
>: for this? Did you use the FreeBSD implementation?
>
>Even if this wasn't the original reason: I'd have proposed it (or
>something similar) to
>
>"protect from simple typing errors"
>
>as we have a legal TAILQ.
So does FreeBSD. If you mix queue macros, the code won't compile because
all of the queue macros use different types. This guards against "simple
typing errors".
>Regards,
> Ignatios Souvatzis
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Justin T. Gibbs
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