Re: Coding technique question

[Timothy Miller]

Thank you for pointing this out to me.  It's very interesting reading.

Aschwin Marsman wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, 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
>>     ....
>>}
> 
> 
> See the Kernel Newbies FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
> Q: "Why do a lot of #defines in the kernel use do { ... } while(0)? "
>  
> Best regards,
>  
> Aschwin Marsman
>  
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