From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,eec376a334ad59ed X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-10 16:44:52 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!news-hog.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!newshub.sdsu.edu!cox.net!news2.east.cox.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3CB4CED3.5040603@telepath.com> From: Ted Dennison User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20011221 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: hashing References: <1b2t8.507$na.19833@news8-gui.server.ntli.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 23:43:31 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.12.51.201 X-Complaints-To: abuse@cox.net X-Trace: news2.east.cox.net 1018482211 68.12.51.201 (Wed, 10 Apr 2002 19:43:31 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 19:43:31 EDT Organization: Cox Communications Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22338 Date: 2002-04-10T23:43:31+00:00 List-Id: chris.danx wrote: > p.s. does anyone have any uses for circular lists? Tom Swans Tp5.5 book > mentions them, what are they used for? Just curious... I use them all the time in my real-time work, and in device drivers. They are awesome for implementing queues using a fixed set of nodes. In real-time work, you really can't go around dynamicly allocating nodes after initilization, so this is very important.