Re: [patch 2/9] Conditional Calls - Hash Table

From: Mathieu Desnoyers
Date: Fri Jun 01 2007 - 14:12:20 EST


* Andi Kleen (andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> > It's not clear to me why either of those things are necessary. An
> > example please?
>
> It's certainly possible that a global flag would need to be tested
> more than once.
>
> I guess it would work if a symbol is associated with a single
> definition. e.g. if there is a DEFINE_COND_CALL() somewhere
> and the individual cond calls reference it.
>

Yes, but as you have probably understood, I want to have everything
embedded at the cond_call() site rather than polluting the rest of the
code with declarations.

Also, if we have the same cond_calls in different modules, in which
module shall it be defined ?

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Mathieu Desnoyers
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