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[$] 5.8 Merge window, part 2

([Kernel] Jun 14, 2020 22:18 UTC (Sun) (corbet))


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I might be able to shoehorn a reference count in on top of the numeric
value by disallowing multiple references on scalars with a numeric value,
but it wouldn't be as clean. I do occasionally worry about that. --lwall