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From: "J . A . Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
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Subject: Re: fake loop
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On 20010803 Richard B. Johnson wrote:
>
>Yes! This is neat! The { } defines a new program unit. Therefore,
>you can allocate temporary variables within it, like:
>
>    do {
>        int i;
>        for(i=0; i< MAX; i++)
>          do_something(i);
>       } while (0);
>

I have heard many times that kernel is not thought to be compiled by anything
but gcc. Please, start useing gcc features, like statement expressions:

({
	int i;
	for(i=0; i< MAX; i++)
		do_something(i); 
})
-- 
J.A. Magallon                           #  Let the source be with you...        
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