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

Dave Jones (davej@suse.de)
Wed, 16 Jan 2002 01:55:13 +0100

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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