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From: Stephen Thomas <stephen.thomas@insignia.com>
To: Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org>
Cc: Bart Trojanowski <bart@jukie.net>,
	"'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: asm/unistd.h
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 15:35:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3ACC82C9.F1C046CE@insignia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010405072628.C22001@debian.org>

Joseph Carter wrote:
> This doesn't follow in my mind.  I can't think of a case where a { ... }
> would fail, but a do { ... } while (0) would succeed.  The former would
> also save a few keystrokes.

#define FOO(x) { wibble(x); wobble((x)+1);}

   if (something)
      FOO(23);
   else            /* Compile goes crump here. */
      another_thing();


Stephen Thomas

  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-04-05 14:36 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   ` asm/unistd.h Tim Waugh
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     ` Stephen Thomas [this message]
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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