Re:“Fast Kernel Headers” Tree -v1: Eliminate the Linux Kerne...
by cassepipe on Monday January 03, 2022 @11:18AM
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Yes, actually when I came to C and asked on stackexchange/unix&linux how I could search which libc header I had to include in order to use a defined macro or find type declaration,without a web search, my question was shot down in the hour and I was recommended to either make a web search or grep and good luck.
This how desperate we are : We can't handle newbies putting that truth in front of us.
It has always amazed me how finding something which originally seemed a trivial little thing, usually meant going through a chain of #defines and typedefs across many header files. It's the same with GLibc, by the way. It' a bit like when you hike to a summit by following a crest path: you always think the next hump in sight is the right one, your destination, the promise land; and when you reach it, dammit, it wasn't, your goal is actually the next one. Or perhaps the next after the next. Or...