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From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Cc: Marc Andre Tanner <mat@brain-dump.org>,
	Bill Gatliff <bgat@billgatliff.com>,
	linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] printk: provide a filtering macro for printk
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 15:30:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090902143039.GA18945@shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8bd0f97a0909020554j9ebdf54v813a6ec74c5c1e7c@mail.gmail.com>

Mike Frysinger wrote:
> it depends completely on how the macro is intended to be used.  if you
> want to maintain the "this macro has a return value", then you have to
> use ({...}).  if you want the macro to return a void, then you have to
> use do{...}while(0).

Actually no.  The difference is do {...} while(0) is a _statement_ and
cannot be used in an expression.  Whereas a void value can be used in
expressions like A?B:C, (A,B) and returned from a function, it just
has type void.

-- Jamie

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-09-02 14:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-01 22:31 [RFC|PATCH] Compile time printk verbosity Marc Andre Tanner
2009-09-01 22:31 ` [PATCH 1/7] printk: introduce CONFIG_PRINTK_VERBOSITY Marc Andre Tanner
2009-09-01 22:31 ` [PATCH 2/7] printk: move printk to the end of the file Marc Andre Tanner
2009-09-01 22:31 ` [PATCH 3/7] printk: introduce printk_unfiltered as an alias to printk Marc Andre Tanner
2009-09-01 22:31 ` [PATCH 4/7] drivers: replace printk with printk_unfiltered Marc Andre Tanner
2009-09-01 22:31 ` [PATCH 5/7] drivers: make macro independent of printk's return value Marc Andre Tanner
2009-09-01 22:31 ` [PATCH 6/7] video/stk-webcam: change use of STK_ERROR Marc Andre Tanner
2009-09-01 22:31 ` [PATCH 7/7] printk: provide a filtering macro for printk Marc Andre Tanner
2009-09-01 23:24   ` Tim Bird
2009-09-01 23:32     ` H Hartley Sweeten
2009-09-02 13:09       ` Marc Andre Tanner
2009-09-02 17:05         ` Tim Bird
2009-09-02 17:31           ` Tim Bird
2009-09-02 18:22           ` H Hartley Sweeten
2009-09-04 14:05             ` Marc Andre Tanner
2009-09-10  9:22           ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2009-09-01 23:35   ` Jamie Lokier
2009-09-02  9:03     ` Marc Andre Tanner
2009-09-02  9:54       ` Marc Andre Tanner
2009-09-02 11:06       ` Jamie Lokier
2009-09-02 12:25         ` Bill Gatliff
2009-09-02 12:44           ` Marc Andre Tanner
2009-09-02 12:54             ` Mike Frysinger
2009-09-02 14:07               ` Marc Andre Tanner
2009-09-02 14:30               ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2009-09-01 23:37 ` [RFC|PATCH] Compile time printk verbosity Mike Frysinger
2009-09-02  8:57   ` Marc Andre Tanner
2009-09-02  9:11     ` Mike Frysinger
2009-09-02  9:47       ` Marc Andre Tanner
2009-09-02  9:56         ` Mike Frysinger

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