From: "Jonathan Matthews-Levine" <matthewslevine@gmail.com>
To: "Heiko Carstens" <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: do { } while (0) question
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 09:45:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <404c96810608010145r4c109fdet9eadba7090321048@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060801082109.GB9589@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
On 01/08/06, Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> wrote:
> ---
> Always use do {} while (0). Failing to do so can cause subtle compile
> failures or bugs.
> ---
>
> I'm really wondering what these subtle compile failures or bugs are.
> Could you please explain?
http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ/DoWhile0
cheers,
Jonathan
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Jonathan Matthews-Levine
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-01 8:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-01 8:21 Heiko Carstens
2006-08-01 8:45 ` Jonathan Matthews-Levine [this message]
2006-08-01 8:53 ` Heiko Carstens
2006-08-01 16:26 ` Andrew James Wade
2006-08-01 8:49 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-01 8:52 ` Jiri Slaby
2006-08-01 9:03 ` Hua Zhong
2006-08-01 9:39 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-01 9:46 ` Jiri Slaby
2006-08-01 9:57 ` Russell King
2006-08-01 10:04 ` Jiri Slaby
2006-08-01 9:59 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-01 10:03 ` Jiri Slaby
2006-08-01 14:49 ` Horst H. von Brand
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