maximum limits all the more closely. Use helper functions with
descriptive names (you can ask the compiler to in-line them if you think
it's performance-critical, and it will probably do a better job of it
-that you would have done).
+than you would have done).
Another measure of the function is the number of local variables. They
shouldn't exceed 5-10, or you're doing something wrong. Re-think the
But even if you fail in getting emacs to do sane formatting, not
everything is lost: use "indent".
-Now, again, GNU indent has the same brain dead settings that GNU emacs
+Now, again, GNU indent has the same brain-dead settings that GNU emacs
has, which is why you need to give it a few command line options.
However, that's not too bad, because even the makers of GNU indent
recognize the authority of K&R (the GNU people aren't evil, they are
Generally, CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL should surround all options not considered
stable. All options that are known to trash data (experimental write-
support for file-systems, for instance) should be denoted (DANGEROUS), other
-Experimental options should be denoted (EXPERIMENTAL).
+experimental options should be denoted (EXPERIMENTAL).
Chapter 8: Data structures
the number of subclass users, and decrements the global count just once
when the subclass count goes to zero.
-Examples of this kind of "multi-reference-counting" can be found in
+Examples of this kind of "multi-level-reference-counting" can be found in
memory management ("struct mm_struct": mm_users and mm_count), and in
filesystem code ("struct super_block": s_count and s_active).
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