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Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 16:18:36 +0200 (CEST)
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Rusty Russell wrote:

> > But i think it would be useful to introduce some sort of '_t convention',
> > where _t always means a complex (or potentially complex - opaque) type. It
> > makes code so much more compact and readable, and it does not hide
> > anything - _t *always* means a complex type in the way i use it.
> 
> OTOH, I've thought of adding a kerrno_t which is an int, and only useful
> for documentation purposes (meaning: I return 0 or -errno). This
> conflicts with your _t definition 8(

well, good rules have exceptions, and kerrno_t is not purely equivalent to
int, it's rather a restricted range of integers. This makes it more
eligible for the _t usage than counter_t for example.

	Ingo

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