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Cc: arch@freebsd.org, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Subject: Re: <sys/queue.h> bikeshed proposal
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> writes:
>> It has always bothered me that some of the TAILQ macros need to
>> know the struct name of the header type.
>> [...]
>> Obviously this is bikeshed fodder, but given how big a help <sys/queue.h>
>> is programming-wise, and given that those four macros are comparatively
>> seldomly used, I will propose to remove this wart from <sys/queue.h>
>> under the banner of computer science in general and suffer the minor
>> backwards compatibility issues it will cause.
> 
> The backwards compatibility issues may be minor, but the
> compatibility-with-other-BSDs issues aren't...
> 
> DES

please discuss this with Kirk as my memory is that he had a 
hand in the original implementation (or at least knew the story).