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From: Joshua Stewart <joshua.stewart@comcast.net>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: A little explanation needed
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 16:07:00 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1040591221.11603.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021222053501.GC17133@kroah.com>

Thanks for the help.  It all makes perfect sense after thinking about it
from a preprecessor point of view.  I'm just not used to using so many
macros and so I don't realize all the implications of preprocessing
quite yet.  But, I'm learning.

Josh

On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 00:35, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 12:36:32AM -0500, Joshua Stewart wrote:
> > 
> > In otherwords, what's the use of a do{X}while(0) "loop" instead of just
> > X.  I'm not the world's best trained C programmer, so forgive me if I
> > sound stupid.
> 
> http://www.kernelnewbies.org/faq/index.php3#dowhile
> 
> Hope that helps,
> 
> greg k-h
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-12-22 20:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-22  5:36 A little explanation needed Joshua Stewart
2002-12-22  5:35 ` Greg KH
2002-12-22 21:07   ` Joshua Stewart [this message]
2002-12-22 20:12 ` DervishD

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