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From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 10/19] introduce container_of macro
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 10:39:48 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190930103948.GA29474@dcvr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <059c05bb-685a-7933-55ff-f18ed271ac3a@gmail.com>

Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/23/2019 9:03 PM, Eric Wong wrote:
> > This macro is popular within the Linux kernel for supporting
> > intrusive data structures such as linked lists, red-black trees,
> > and chained hash tables while allowing the compiler to do
> > type checking.
> > 
> > I intend to use this to remove the limitation of "hashmap_entry"
> > being location-dependent and to allow more compile-time type
> > checking.
> 
> nit: I don't know why the first-person singular language caused
> me to stumble during this message. Perhaps the following rewrite
> would convey the same information:
> 
>   Later patches will use container_of() to remove the limitation
>   of "hashmap_entry" being location-dependent. This will complete
>   the transition to compile-time type checking for the hashmap API.

Agreed.  Thanks.

> > This macro already exists in our source as "list_entry" in
> > list.h and making "list_entry" an alias to "container_of"
> > as the Linux kernel has done is a possibility.
> 
> If it is the same code, then I would prefer you do this conversion
> now so we can see that equivalence in the patch AND we know that
> existing code will test it.

One problem is I'm not sure if list.h should have an
#include for git-compat-util.h, since list.h comes from an
outside source....

  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-30 10:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-26  2:43 [PATCH 00/11] hashmap: bugfixes, safety fixes, and WIP improvements Eric Wong
2019-08-26  2:43 ` [PATCH 01/11] diff: use hashmap_entry_init on moved_entry.ent Eric Wong
2019-08-27 13:31   ` Derrick Stolee
2019-08-26  2:43 ` [PATCH 02/11] packfile: use hashmap_entry in delta_base_cache_entry Eric Wong
2019-08-26  2:43 ` [PATCH 03/11] hashmap_entry_init takes "struct hashmap_entry *" Eric Wong
2019-08-27 13:35   ` Derrick Stolee
2019-08-28 15:01     ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-08-30 19:48       ` Eric Wong
2019-09-02 13:46         ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-08-26  2:43 ` [PATCH 04/11] hashmap_entry: detect improper initialization Eric Wong
2019-08-27  9:10   ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-08-27  9:49     ` Eric Wong
2019-08-27 22:16       ` Junio C Hamano
2019-08-28 15:04         ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-08-28  9:03       ` Phillip Wood
2019-08-30 19:52         ` Eric Wong
2019-09-08  7:49   ` [RFC 04/11] coccicheck: detect hashmap_entry.hash assignment Eric Wong
2019-09-09 18:15     ` Junio C Hamano
2019-08-26  2:43 ` [PATCH 05/11] hashmap_get_next takes "const struct hashmap_entry *" Eric Wong
2019-08-26  2:43 ` [PATCH 06/11] hashmap_add takes "struct " Eric Wong
2019-08-26  2:43 ` [PATCH 07/11] hashmap_get takes "const struct " Eric Wong
2019-08-26  2:43 ` [PATCH 08/11] hashmap_remove " Eric Wong
2019-08-26  2:43 ` [PATCH 09/11] hashmap_put takes "struct " Eric Wong
2019-08-26  2:43 ` [PATCH 10/11] introduce container_of macro Eric Wong
2019-08-27 14:49   ` Derrick Stolee
2019-08-28  9:11     ` Phillip Wood
2019-08-30 19:43     ` Eric Wong
2019-08-26  2:43 ` [PATCH 11/11] hashmap_get_next returns "struct hashmap_entry *" Eric Wong
2019-08-27 14:53   ` Derrick Stolee
2019-08-30 19:36     ` Eric Wong
2019-09-24  1:03 ` [PATCH v2 00/19] hashmap bug/safety/ease-of-use fixes Eric Wong
2019-09-24  1:03   ` [PATCH v2 01/19] diff: use hashmap_entry_init on moved_entry.ent Eric Wong
2019-09-24  1:03   ` [PATCH v2 02/19] coccicheck: detect hashmap_entry.hash assignment Eric Wong
2019-09-25 12:44     ` Derrick Stolee
2019-09-24  1:03   ` [PATCH v2 03/19] packfile: use hashmap_entry in delta_base_cache_entry Eric Wong
2019-09-24  1:03   ` [PATCH v2 04/19] hashmap_entry_init takes "struct hashmap_entry *" Eric Wong
2019-09-25 12:48     ` Derrick Stolee
2019-09-24  1:03   ` [PATCH v2 05/19] hashmap_get_next takes "const struct " Eric Wong
2019-09-24  1:03   ` [PATCH v2 06/19] hashmap_add takes "struct " Eric Wong
2019-09-24  1:03   ` [PATCH v2 07/19] hashmap_get takes "const struct " Eric Wong
2019-09-25 12:52     ` Derrick Stolee
2019-09-30  9:57       ` Eric Wong
2019-09-24  1:03   ` [PATCH v2 08/19] hashmap_remove " Eric Wong
2019-09-25 12:54     ` Derrick Stolee
2019-09-24  1:03   ` [PATCH v2 09/19] hashmap_put takes "struct " Eric Wong
2019-09-24  1:03   ` [PATCH v2 10/19] introduce container_of macro Eric Wong
2019-09-25 13:12     ` Derrick Stolee
2019-09-30 10:39       ` Eric Wong [this message]
2019-09-24  1:03   ` [PATCH v2 11/19] hashmap_get_next returns "struct hashmap_entry *" Eric Wong
2019-09-25 13:05     ` Derrick Stolee
2019-09-24  1:03   ` [PATCH v2 12/19] hashmap: use *_entry APIs to wrap container_of Eric Wong
2019-09-25 13:15     ` Derrick Stolee
2019-09-24  1:03   ` [PATCH v2 13/19] hashmap_get{,_from_hash} return "struct hashmap_entry *" Eric Wong
2019-09-24  1:03   ` [PATCH v2 14/19] hashmap_cmp_fn takes hashmap_entry params Eric Wong
2019-09-24  1:03   ` [PATCH v2 15/19] hashmap: use *_entry APIs for iteration Eric Wong
2019-09-24  1:03   ` [PATCH v2 16/19] hashmap: hashmap_{put,remove} return hashmap_entry * Eric Wong
2019-09-24  1:03   ` [PATCH v2 17/19] hashmap: introduce hashmap_free_entries Eric Wong
2019-09-24  1:03   ` [PATCH v2 18/19] OFFSETOF_VAR macro to simplify hashmap iterators Eric Wong
2019-09-30 16:58     ` Junio C Hamano
2019-10-04  1:18     ` Junio C Hamano
2019-10-04  2:51       ` Eric Wong
2019-10-04  3:29         ` Junio C Hamano
2019-10-04 17:26           ` Eric Wong
2019-10-06  0:04             ` Junio C Hamano
2019-09-24  1:03   ` [PATCH v2 19/19] hashmap: remove type arg from hashmap_{get,put,remove}_entry Eric Wong
2019-09-25 12:42     ` Derrick Stolee
2019-09-25 13:30   ` [PATCH v2 00/19] hashmap bug/safety/ease-of-use fixes Derrick Stolee
2019-09-26  8:39   ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-09-30 10:01     ` Eric Wong
2019-09-26 13:48   ` Phillip Wood
2019-09-29  9:22   ` Junio C Hamano

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