<sys/queue.h> bikeshed proposal

[Yar Tikhiy]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 09:38:05AM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <39968.1173776514 at critter.freebsd.dk>, Poul-Henning Kamp writes:
> >
> >It has always bothered me that some of the TAILQ macros need to
> >know the struct name of the header type.

Yeah, <sys/queue.h> can present a challenge in understanding an
implementation of basic data structures and related algos. :-)
You thought that tqe_prev points to the whole entry structure when
making the patch, didn't you?

Personally, I cannot explain to myself why in the double-linked
structs the prev member points to the next member in the previous
list element and not to the previous list element itself.  Could
anybody with CS education explain merits of the current approach?
I can only see that now we have to go to the element before the
previous one for a pointer to the latter.  I'm not going to dispute
the current way of things, just curious.

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Yar