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From: michi1@michaelblizek.twilightparadox.com (michi1 at michaelblizek.twilightparadox.com)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Submitted a first patch and no reply
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2015 17:55:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150109165552.GA4687@grml> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG77vrowzc04Z4_zZfCEwhF-kx=RnAnyXa0afsYL5dGsr2=Tng@mail.gmail.com>

Hi!

On 12:00 Thu 08 Jan     , shirish gajera wrote:
> This patch fixes the checkpatch.pl warning:
> 
> WARNING: Single statement macros should not use a do {} while (0) loop
> 
> I have added single statement in curly braces, because it was giving
> me "WARNING: macros should not use a trailing semicolon".
...
> -#define R256(p0, p1, p2, p3, ROT, r_num) \
> -do { \
> -       ROUND256(p0, p1, p2, p3, ROT, r_num); \
> -} while (0)
> +#define R256(p0, p1, p2, p3, ROT, r_num)        \
> +{                                              \
> +       ROUND256(p0, p1, p2, p3, ROT, r_num);   \
> +}

This is wrong. Take a look at the reason of the do...while:
http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/cpp/Swallowing-the-Semicolon.html


You probably want to replace it with something like this:
#define R256(p0, p1, p2, p3, ROT, r_num) ROUND256(p0, p1, p2, p3, ROT, r_num)
or maybe even convert it to an inline function.

	-Michi
-- 
programing a layer 3+4 network protocol for mesh networks
see http://michaelblizek.twilightparadox.com

      parent reply	other threads:[~2015-01-09 16:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-08 20:00 Submitted a first patch and no reply shirish gajera
2015-01-08 20:32 ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
2015-01-08 20:37   ` shirish gajera
2015-01-08 20:49     ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
2015-01-08 21:14       ` Joe Perches
2015-01-08 21:25         ` shirish gajera
2015-01-08 21:31       ` [PATCH] checkpatch: Allow comments in macros tested for single statements Joe Perches
2015-01-09 16:55 ` michi1 at michaelblizek.twilightparadox.com [this message]

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