Re: Coding technique question

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@pobox.com)
Mon, 16 Jun 2003 15:56:07 -0400


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

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