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To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: WHY? ...non-use of TAILQ macros... 
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Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 07:37:02 -0600
From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@plutotech.com>
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><<On Thu, 10 Apr 1997 15:48:44 -0700 (MST), Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> 
>said:
>
>> I'm wondering why the following aren't written using the macros (macro
>> versions are shown one line below):
>> kern_lockf.c:				while (ltmp = overlap->lf_blkhd
>.tqh_first) {
>
>1.  Because they are a FreeBSD (actually Justin Gibbs) invention.
>Obviously, original Berkeley code will not use a macro that Berkeley
>didn't have.


Actually, Poul invented the macros to access the individual members.
I did the SLIST and STAILQ stuff.

>-GAWollman
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