From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261628AbUFBQRu (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jun 2004 12:17:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261638AbUFBQRu (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jun 2004 12:17:50 -0400 Received: from mail.fh-wedel.de ([213.39.232.194]:19089 "EHLO mail.fh-wedel.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261628AbUFBQRr (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jun 2004 12:17:47 -0400 Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 18:17:21 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Horst von Brand , Pavel Machek , Andrew Morton , Arjan van de Ven , Ingo Molnar , Andrea Arcangeli , Rik van Riel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] explicitly mark recursion count Message-ID: <20040602161721.GA29296@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> References: <200406011929.i51JTjGO006174@eeyore.valparaiso.cl> <20040602131623.GA23017@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> <20040602142748.GA25939@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> <20040602150440.GA26474@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> <20040602152741.GC26474@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2 June 2004 08:52:53 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > I think the above syntax is both human-readable and "obviously parseable" > in many trivial ways. Whaddaya think? Works for you? Works for me for trivial recursions (just one function involved. With a little more pain, it should work for basically everything. Only exception are multiple recursions around the same function. So unless you like to keep those suckers, I'm fine with it. Jörn -- The cheapest, fastest and most reliable components of a computer system are those that aren't there. -- Gordon Bell, DEC labratories