On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Rusty Russell wrote:
>
> Worst sin is that you can't predeclare typedefs. For many uses (not the
> list macros of course):
> struct xx;
> is sufficient and avoids the #include hell,
True.
However, that only works for function declarations.
typedefs are easy to avoid.
The real #include hell comes, to a large degree, from the fact that we
like inline functions. Which have many wonderful properties, but they have
the same nasty property typedefs have: they require full type information
and cannot be predeclared.
And while I'd like to avoid #include hell, I'm not willing to replace
inline functions with #define's to avoid it ;^p
Linus
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