Re: [PATCH] Re: 2.5.3-pre1 compile error

From: Dave Jones (davej@suse.de)
Date: Tue Jan 15 2002 - 19:55:13 EST


On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 04:41:08PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > #ifndef _LINUX_POSIX_TYPES_H /* __FD_CLR */
> > #include <linux/posix_types.h>
> > #endif
> If this actally makes any noticeable difference to compilation speed I
> could live with it. Does it?

 I'm sure I read somewhere that gcc is clever enough to know
 when it hits a #include, it checks for a symbol equal to a
 mangled version of the filename before including it.
 (Ie, doing this transparently).

 Then again, I may have imagined it all.

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| Dave Jones.        http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
| SuSE Labs
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