[pacman-dev] alpm_list: missing quick access to last element

Dan McGee dpmcgee at gmail.com
Mon Mar 5 12:11:11 EST 2007


On 3/5/07, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/5/07, Jürgen Hötzel <juergen at hoetzel.info> wrote:
> > Circular lists are different. There is NO end of the list.  consider
> > alpm_list_find: it will loop forever ;) pacmans implementation expects
> > "non-circular" lists everywhere. Just an example:
>
> I guess my point is that there are hundreds of options here.  I think
> we should think it through rather than putting the ->last pointer back
> in there.

Can someone point me to where this ->last pointer exists? I couldn't
find it in CVS (but only looked briefly). Is it in pacman 2.9.8?

-Dan


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