From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Coding technique question
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 15:56:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030616195607.GA21660@gtf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3EEE2293.6010304@techsource.com>
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 04:03:31PM -0400, Timothy Miller wrote:
> I believe I've seen this sort of thing done in the kernel:
>
> do {
> ....
> code
> ....
> } while (0);
>
>
> What I was wondering is how this is any different from:
>
> {
> ....
> code
> ....
> }
It's not... unless you're creating a function-like macro.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-16 19:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-16 20:03 Coding technique question Timothy Miller
2003-06-16 19:56 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2003-06-16 20:05 ` Aschwin Marsman
2003-06-16 20:23 ` Timothy Miller
2003-06-19 2:16 ` david nicol
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