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Re: Shrink "struct object" a bit

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Jun 17, 2006, 19:13 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0606171211580.5498@g5.osdl.org>
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On Sat, 17 Jun 2006, Philip Pokorny wrote:
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> 
> A minor thing, but doesn't this mean the "report_missing" message would change
> from:
> 
> > Cannot obtain needed object ab12cdef1234567890abcd
> > while processing commit fedcbadeadbeefdeadbe
> 
> to
> 
> > Cannot obtain needed none ab12cdef1234567890abcd
> > while processing commit fedcbadeadbeefdeadbe

Yeah. I guess you could either just keep the old conditional, or just change the object type-name for the unspecified mode 0 to something like "untyped object" which would cause a much more readable errors.

		Linus
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  1. Linus TorvaldsJun 14, 2006
  2. Philip PokornyJun 17, 2006
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