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Linus Torvalds calls RISC-V code from Google engineer 'garbage' and that it 'makes the world actively a worse place to live' — Linux honcho puts dev on notice for late submissions, too (www.tomshardware.com)
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[-] RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Absolute code amateur here, but my guess is "generic headers" are just a copy/paste job from another program (or vibe code), and declare a bunch of really common functions that never actually get utilized in the code.

Sorta like copying the same import statements in Python, whether you're using numpy or not

[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I don't think that's quite right:

So no. Things like this need to get bent. It does not go into generic header files

'generic' seems to be describing a category of header files that are especially important for some reason, and isn't being used as a pejorative to describe the rejected code.

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