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From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ben Collins <ben.collins@ubuntu.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc1] ib_verbs: Use explicit if-else statements to avoid errors with do-while macros
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 23:45:03 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ada4pryq5ts.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061214065624.GN4587@ftp.linux.org.uk> (Al Viro's message of "Thu, 14 Dec 2006 06:56:24 +0000")

 > IOW, do ; while(0) / do { } while (0)  is not a proper way to do a macro
 > that imitates a function returning void.
 > 
 > Objections?

None from me, although the ternary ? : is a pretty odd way to write

	if (blah)
		do_this_void_function();
	else
		do_that_void_function();

so I'm in favor of that half of the patch anyway.  It's my fault for
not noticing that part of the patch in the first place.

Changing the non-void ? : constructions is just churn, but there's no
sense changing it again now that the patch is merged.

 - R.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-14  7:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-14  3:10 [PATCH 2.6.20-rc1] ib_verbs: Use explicit if-else statements to avoid errors with do-while macros Ben Collins
2006-12-14  6:16 ` Roland Dreier
2006-12-14  6:44 ` Al Viro
2006-12-14  6:56   ` Al Viro
2006-12-14  7:45     ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2006-12-14 14:24       ` Ben Collins
2006-12-14  9:08     ` Andrew Morton

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