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Re: in which we present an ugly hack to make sys/queue.h CIRCLEQ work



On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 11:02:24PM -0500, Ken Hornstein wrote:
> So ... looking at this code ... it seems like the core problem is that
> TAILQ_HEAD and TAILQ_ENTRY are two different types (even though they
> literally the same structure layout).  So if TAILQ_HEAD and TAILQ_ENTRY
> were the same structure, it wouldn't be an issue.  It doesn't quite leap
> out to me how that would be possible without changing the API a bit.

Right. Let's break the API and fix it for real (which also should cover
making it usable for a C++ compiler).

Martin


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