From: Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>
To: Aschwin Marsman <a.marsman@aYniK.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Coding technique question
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 16:23:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EEE272A.2040208@techsource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0306162202480.1924-100000@localhost.localdomain>
Thank you for pointing this out to me. It's very interesting reading.
Aschwin Marsman wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Timothy Miller wrote:
>
>
>>I believe I've seen this sort of thing done in the kernel:
>>
>>do {
>> ....
>> code
>> ....
>>} while (0);
>>
>>
>>What I was wondering is how this is any different from:
>>
>>{
>> ....
>> code
>> ....
>>}
>
>
> See the Kernel Newbies FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
> Q: "Why do a lot of #defines in the kernel use do { ... } while(0)? "
>
> Best regards,
>
> Aschwin Marsman
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-16 19:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-16 20:03 Timothy Miller
2003-06-16 19:56 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-06-16 20:05 ` Aschwin Marsman
2003-06-16 20:23 ` Timothy Miller [this message]
2003-06-19 2:16 ` david nicol
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