Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2] Create initial kernel ABI header infrastructure

From: Martin Mares
Date: Sun Mar 26 2006 - 10:36:31 EST


Hello!

> It _is_ fragile, but for a number of POSIX-defined structs that's
> actually the only way to do it without duplicating the data structure
> in entirety, unless the GCC people can implement a "typedef struct
> foo struct bar;"

Actually, something like that can be achieved using anonymous structure
members:

struct xxx {
struct yyy;
};

However, I'm not sure how old versions of GCC support this feature.

Have a nice fortnight
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Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@xxxxxx> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
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