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Message-ID: <20240613172831.5e7f762f@rorschach.local.home>
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2024 17:28:31 -0400
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
linux-trace-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] linux++: delete some forward declarations
On Thu, 13 Jun 2024 14:21:10 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jun 2024 16:10:12 -0400 Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:
>
> > > And... I'm a bit surprised that forward declarations are allowed in C.
> > > A billion years ago I used a C compiler which would use 16 bits for
> > > an enum if the enumted values would fit in 16 bits. And it would use 32
> > > bits otherwise. So the enumerated values were *required* for the
> > > compiler to be able to figure out the sizeof. But it was a billion
> > > years ago.
> >
> > Well, I only looked at the one change in ftrace.h which has a
> > "struct seq_file;" that is not used anywhere else in the file, so that
> > one definitely can go.
>
> The risk is that something which includes ftrace.h is depending upon
> the enum declaration.
You mean forward struct declaration. And if so, good! it needs to be fixed ;-)
-- Steve
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