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Date:      Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:35:21 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Attilio Rao <attilio@freebsd.org>, cvs-src@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man9 Makefile condvar.9 lock.9 mi_switch.9 mtx_pool.9 mutex.9 rwlock.9 sleep.9 sleepqueue.9 sx.9 thread_exit.9 src/sys/kern kern_synch.c src/sys/sys mutex.h rwlock.h sleepqueue.h sx.h systm.h
Message-ID:  <200703121535.22140.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070312185638.GA5688@garage.freebsd.pl>
References:  <200703092241.l29Mf2Ds062856@repoman.freebsd.org> <200703121116.24667.jhb@freebsd.org> <20070312185638.GA5688@garage.freebsd.pl>

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On Monday 12 March 2007 14:56, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 11:16:23AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> > On Saturday 10 March 2007 15:52, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> > > What about something like this:
> > > 
> > > #define	cv_wait(cv, lock)	do {
> > > 	switch (LO_CLASSINDEX((struct lock_object *)(lock))) {
> > 
> > The problem with a cast is you use type checking.  Might as well do this:
> > 
> > #define	cv_wait(cv, lock)	_cv_wait((cv), (struct lock_object *)(lock))
> 
> This will skip type checking and my version only cast to provide type
> checking, so when you pass some random variable it will give you an
> error.

Not really, you may pass some garbage and the LO_CLASSINDEX turns out to be a 
mutex. :)  You only get a runtime error, not a compile-time one.  
Type-checking by the compiler is nice because you get compile-time errors.

-- 
John Baldwin



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