Re: increase the number of system call parameters

Daniel Barlow (dan@telent.net)
22 Oct 2001 22:37:46 +0100


Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> writes:

> A note on design: if you have a function call that needs 12 arguments you
> probably forgot some[1] (in short it is a strong cue for a broken design,
> you should probably split it in smaller calls)

> [1] unknown author

If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
-- Alan Perlis, SIGPLAN Notices Vol. 17, No. 9

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-dan

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