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From: Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com>
To: Bart Trojanowski <bart@jukie.net>
Cc: "Sardañons, Eliel" <Eliel.Sardanons@philips.edu.ar>,
	"'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: asm/unistd.h
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 14:12:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010405141248.Z9355@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A0C675E9DC2CD411A5870040053AEBA0284170@MAINSERVER> <Pine.LNX.4.30.0104050901500.13496-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0104050901500.13496-100000@localhost>; from bart@jukie.net on Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 09:06:20AM -0400

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On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 09:06:20AM -0400, Bart Trojanowski wrote:

> So you ask: "why not just use a { ... } to define a macro".  I don't
> remember the case for this but I know it's there.  It has to do with a
> complicated if/else structure where a simple {} breaks.

It's for eating the semi-colon after the macro invocation.

Tim.
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  reply	other threads:[~2001-04-05 13:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-04-05 12:58 asm/unistd.h Sardañons, Eliel
2001-04-05 13:06 ` asm/unistd.h Bart Trojanowski
2001-04-05 13:12   ` Tim Waugh [this message]
2001-04-05 14:26   ` asm/unistd.h Joseph Carter
2001-04-05 14:35     ` asm/unistd.h Bart Trojanowski
2001-04-05 14:35     ` asm/unistd.h Stephen Thomas
2001-04-05 14:45     ` asm/unistd.h Andreas Schwab
2001-04-05 17:38       ` asm/unistd.h J . A . Magallon
2001-04-05 13:07 ` asm/unistd.h David S. Miller
2001-04-05 13:13 ` asm/unistd.h Ben Collins
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-04-05 15:23 asm/unistd.h Steve Grubb
2001-04-05 15:41 ` asm/unistd.h Bart Trojanowski
2001-04-05 15:45 ` asm/unistd.h David S. Miller

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