Re: Coding technique question

Timothy Miller (miller@techsource.com)
Mon, 16 Jun 2003 16:23:06 -0400


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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