Re: [PATCH][2.5] Single linked headed lists for Linux, v3

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 07:45:00AM -0600, Thunder from the hill wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, 28 Sep 2002, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 07:27:37AM -0600, Thunder from the hill wrote:
> > > Sorry, inline taints the concept. It's supposed to work with any type. 
> > > (This time.) We've had crappy times with list.h, so slist.h shall not use 
> > > inlines.
> > 
> > Define crappy times.
> 
>  - casts
>  - list members had to be in some specified place of the struct
>  - some binary disadvantages

All of those are utter crap.  Older gcc's had some little inlining
problems that generated suboptimal code, but that's cured now and
I don't thikn it even made a difference for the small list_* functions.