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On Mar 26, 2006, at 07:19:14, Måns Rullgård wrote:
> A double semicolon can cause all sorts of hard to debug problems.
> Consider this:
>
> #define foo() bar();
> /* ... */
> if(x)
> foo();
> else
> baz();
>
> This will expand to syntactically invalid code because of the extra
> semicolon.
More generically, the code "do { [...] } while(0)" can _always_ be
substituted for the code "function_returning_void()" without changing
the meaning of the surrounding code. Look at the following examples:
for (i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
macro();
}
for (i = 0; i < 10; i++)
if (i > 5)
macro1();
else
macro2();
Cheers,
Kyle Moffett
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