[PATCH] linux++: delete some forward declarations
Steven Rostedt
rostedt at goodmis.org
Thu Jun 13 21:28:31 UTC 2024
On Thu, 13 Jun 2024 14:21:10 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jun 2024 16:10:12 -0400 Steven Rostedt <rostedt at goodmis.org> wrote:
>
> > > And... I'm a bit surprised that forward declarations are allowed in C.
> > > A billion years ago I used a C compiler which would use 16 bits for
> > > an enum if the enumted values would fit in 16 bits. And it would use 32
> > > bits otherwise. So the enumerated values were *required* for the
> > > compiler to be able to figure out the sizeof. But it was a billion
> > > years ago.
> >
> > Well, I only looked at the one change in ftrace.h which has a
> > "struct seq_file;" that is not used anywhere else in the file, so that
> > one definitely can go.
>
> The risk is that something which includes ftrace.h is depending upon
> the enum declaration.
You mean forward struct declaration. And if so, good! it needs to be fixed ;-)
-- Steve
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