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Date:      Wed, 02 Jan 2002 19:28:49 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        Stephen McKay <mckay@thehub.com.au>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Julian Elischer <julian@FreeBSD.org>, Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man3 queue.3 
Message-ID:  <1540.1009996129@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 02 Jan 2002 09:34:05 PST." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0201020933320.19204-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> 

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In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0201020933320.19204-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>, Ju
lian Elischer writes:

>how about explicitly detailing that it's NULL at the end?
>Doesn't that also work?

I don't think we should document that.

There are types of lists/queues which doesn't naturally end with
that condition.  That is why we have the FOO_EMPTY() clause, although
people tend to also rely on

	if (FOO_FIRST(...) == NULL)
		/* nothing to do */

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