> We don't know the parent structure. We shouldn't know it, since it takes
> time. So I try to keep the address pointer stable instead of just
> exchanging pointers.
In the case of slist_del() you HAVE to know it.
Think about removing a single entry from the middle of
the list ... the entries before and after need to stay
on the list.
Rik
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