On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 12:59:52PM +0100, Bernhard Walle wrote:
> * Russell King <[email protected]> [2007-10-28 11:34]:
> >
> > If you go down that route, you end up with _lots_ of circular
> > dependencies - header file X needs Y needs Z which needs X. We've
> > been there, several times. It very quickly becomes quite
> > unmaintainable - you end up with hard to predict behaviour from
> > include files.
> >
> > The only realistic solution is to use forward declarations.
>
> In header files, yes. But that's not true for implementation files.
I don't think that needs saying - it's quite obvious. You can't
access the contents of structures without their definitions being
available.
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
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