glib dependency for the X Server

Matthias Hopf mhopf at suse.de
Tue Apr 11 11:41:34 PDT 2006


On Apr 03, 06 08:33:34 -0700, Ian Romanick wrote:
> Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
> > struct _XD_List /** A linked list node */
> > {
> >    void    *data; /**< Pointer to list element payload */
> >    XD_List *next; /**< Next member in the list */
> >    XD_List *prev; /**< Previous member in the list */
> >    void    *accounting; /**< Private list accounting info - don't touch */
> > };
> 
> What's disappointing here is that having the do NULL pointer checks on
> list element pointers was solved 20 years ago on the Amiga.

Thanks for reminding me. One of the best solved issues in AmigaOS,
appart from tagged function calls.

Sigh

Matthias (dreaming)

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