On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 12:59:52PM +0100, Bernhard Walle wrote: > * Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-10-28 11:34]: > > > > If you go down that route, you end up with _lots_ of circular > > dependencies - header file X needs Y needs Z which needs X. We've > > been there, several times. It very quickly becomes quite > > unmaintainable - you end up with hard to predict behaviour from > > include files. > > > > The only realistic solution is to use forward declarations. > > In header files, yes. But that's not true for implementation files.
I don't think that needs saying - it's quite obvious. You can't access the contents of structures without their definitions being available. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
