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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH][2.5] Single linked lists for Linux, overly complicated v2
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> What is the problem these lists are intended to solve?

That's what I kept asking myself when I wrote the orginal push/pop
macros.  My conclusion was that there is no worthwhile expression of
these things in C.  Writing those macros was just something I had
to do so I could wallow in the ugliness and stop thinking "maybe
these things should be generic".

-- 
Daniel
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