On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 22:51 -0500, Josef Sipek wrote: > On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 03:45:50AM +0000, Mark Williamson wrote: > > > > Why are you defining all these structs that are just wrapping unions? > > > > > > The reason for the union is simple... > ... > > I guess that having a union foo * rather than a struct foo * would be a bit > > unconventional in the kernel. The named struct / anonymous union combo does > > hide the union as merely an implementation detail, which is nice. Was this > > your motivation? > > That's exactly it. Save space & hide the details. Why? What is so special about the details that you need to hide them? This is a union that will always be part of a structure anyway. Trond - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
