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SubjectRe: do { } while (0) question
Heiko Carstens wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> your commit e2c2770096b686b4d2456173f53cb50e01aa635c does this:
>
> ---
> Always use do {} while (0). Failing to do so can cause subtle compile
> failures or bugs.
>
> -#define hotcpu_notifier(fn, pri)
> -#define register_hotcpu_notifier(nb)
> -#define unregister_hotcpu_notifier(nb)
> +#define hotcpu_notifier(fn, pri) do { } while (0)
> +#define register_hotcpu_notifier(nb) do { } while (0)
> +#define unregister_hotcpu_notifier(nb) do { } while (0)

#if KILLER == 1
#define MACRO
#else
#define MACRO do { } while (0)
#endif

{
if (some_condition)
MACRO

if_this_is_not_called_you_loose_your_data();
}

How do you want to define KILLER, 0 or 1? I personally choose 0.

regards,
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<a href="http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/">Jiri Slaby</a>
faculty of informatics, masaryk university, brno, cz
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