Re: [RFC] timers, pointers to functions and type safety

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On Dec 01, 2006, at 12:21:49, Al Viro wrote:
And that's where it gets interesting.  It would be very nice to get to
the following situation:
 * callbacks are void (*)(void *)
 * data is void *
 * instances can take void * or pointer to object type
* a macro SETUP_TIMER(timer, func, data) sets callback and data and checks if func(data) would be valid.

This is where a very limited form of C++ templates would do nicely; you could define something like the following:

template <typename T>
static inline void setup_timer(struct timer_list *timer,
		void (*function)(T *), T *data)
{
	timer->function = (void (*)(void *))function;
	timer->data = (void *)data;
	init_timer(timer);
}

Any attempts to call it with mismatched "function" and "data" arguments would display an "Unable to find matching template" error from the compiler.

Unfortunately you can't get simple templated functions without opening the whole barrel of monkeys involved with C++ support; including an explosion of reserved words, a 400% or more increase in compilation time, a decrease in the efficiency of parts of the generated code, etc.

<crazy-talk>
Maybe it's time for Linux to fork GCC and morph C99 into a language whose design more fundamentally supports the kinds of type-checking and static verification that we keep adding to the kernel, including some of the things that sparse, lockdep, kmemleak, etc. do.
</crazy-talk>

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett
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