[Mesa-dev] [RFC] Moving from macro to inline for list manipulation

[Jerome Glisse]

Hi,

One short coming of macro has keep entertaining me until i figure out
what was wrong, here is
a simple scenario :

Macro can lead to hard to debug list bugs. For instance consider
the following :
LIST_ADD(item, list->prev)
3 instruction of the macro became :
(list->prev)->next->prev = item
which is equivalent to :
list->prev = item
Thus list prev field changes and next instruction in the macro
(list->prev)->next = item
became :
item->next = item
And you endup with list corruption, other case lead to similar
list corruption. Inline function are not affected by this short
coming

Thus i propose to switch list manipulation from macro to inline
function, attached patch does exactly that. If there is no objection
in next couple of week i will merge it. (to avoid mass renaming it
keeps the macro that just wrap the functions it also add a bunch of
new list walking helper)

Cheers,
Jerome
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