Re: [Patch] Always include <linux/types.h>

From: Andreas Schwab
Date: Wed Nov 05 2008 - 14:50:43 EST


Jörn Engel <joern@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> My hope was actually to speed up compilation. If the average c file
> includes 10 headers, on types.h will get included by most of them,
> possibly multiple times. Each run after the first still has to parse
> the whole file, just to drop everything between #ifndef _LINUX_TYPES_H
> and #endif.

Actually GCC is smart enought to note the bracketing and avoid even
looking at it a second time.

Andreas.

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