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Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 00:28:40 +0100
From: "J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
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       Larry McVoy <lm@work.bitmover.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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On 2003.02.10 Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 12:51:12AM +0100, Jakob Oestergaard wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 03:21:01PM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote:
> > > > I'd love to see a small - and fast - C compiler, and I'd be willing to
> > > > make kernel changes to make it work with it.  
> > > 
> > > I can't offer any immediate help with this but I want the same thing.  At
> > > some point, we're planning on funding some extensions into GCC or whatever
> > > reasonable C compiler is around:
> > 
> > [snipping Linus from To:]
> > 
> > Cool.
> > 
> > > 
> > >     - associative arrays as a builtin type
> > > 
> > >       {
> > >       	  assoc	bar = {};	// anonymous, no file backing
> > > 
> > > 	  bar{"some key"} = "some value";
> > > 	  if (defined(bar{"some other value"})) ...
> > >       }
> > 
> > Allow me:
> > 
> > {
> >  std::map<std::string,std::string> bar;
> > 
> >  bar["some key"] = "some value";
> >  if (bar.find("some other value") != bar.end()) ...
> > }
> 

And don't forget smart pointers with reference counting so you can get rid of
all those stupind kfree's... ;)

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