Re: [RFC, 2.6] a simple FIFO implementation

[Kyle Moffett]

On Sep 17, 2004, at 18:29, Ryan Cumming wrote:
> Er, sorry, the last patch was had an off-by-one error (it would round 
> 4 up to
> 8).
>
> +static inline unsigned long __attribute_pure__ roundup_pow_of_two(int 
> x)

This should probably be __const__, which is a stricter class of 
__pure__.
The "__pure__" attribute means it has no side effects, whereas the
"__const__" attribute means that it also _only_ depends on its 
arguments,
not on any global memory or the data at any pointers passed to it.

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett

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