RE: [Xen-devel] recent major -unstable changes cause ia64 build to be broken

["Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins)" <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxx>]

> it. Here I
> will repeat my point about relying on implicit includes... :)

Though I agree in principle with not using implicit includes,
it doesn't really work in reality.  For example, many
header files declare structs that use typedefs for elements
of the struct, which creates a direct dependency on a header
file.  The only way to avoid including the header file directly
in the "parent" header file is by "instructing" all the users
of the "parent" header to first include the subsidiary ones.
The C language doesn't deal with this very well, resulting
in very obscure error messages if something is missing.
And since typedefs cannot be duplicately declared even if
identical (a bug in C I think), there's a catch-22.

Dan

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