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Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 12:04:16 -0500
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Subject: Re: halt/reset on assert?
From: kevin diggs <diggskevin38@gmail.com>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 2:55 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
<benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 14:01 +0100, Evan Lavelle wrote:
>> #define MY_ASSERT(expr) if(!(expr)) BUG()
>
> Make it
>
> #define MY_ASSERT(expr) do { if .... } while(0)
>
> To ensure it has proper single statement semantics in C.
>
So THAT'S why they do this!!!!!! Now I just have to figure out what
'proper single statement semantics' means!

THANKS!!!

kevin

> Cheers,
> Ben.