[Freeciv-Dev] Re: list cleaning

["Per I. Mathisen" <per@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, Raimar Falke wrote:
> There is another way. If this 'normalize' iterators are in place we
> can ensure with assert that unlink isn't called when we are currently
> iterating over the list. Such cases would then be replaced (by hand)
> with safe iterations. This is the conservative approach: you can be
> sure that there are no unsafe unlinks and there is a known and
> constant memory and cpu-time usage.

Not if deletions only happen in extremely rare cases. This does happen.
Then you just introduced a new bug where there may not have been one
previously.

  - Per