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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] cleanup on selection.c
    On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 11:55:52AM -0400, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
    > On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 11:06:41AM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
    > > nope, look at copy_from_user_ret in include/asm/uaccess.h
    > >
    > > #define copy_from_user_ret(to,from,n,retval) ({ if (copy_from_user(to,from,n)) return retval; })
    >
    > you're misunderstanding this gcc-ism. if the define were:
    >
    > #define copy_from_user_ret(to,from,n,retval) if (copy_from_user(to,from,n)) \
    > return retval;
    >
    > then your original code was correct.

    ok. i was wrong. i was confused with:

    ({ int y = foo (); int z;
    if (y > 0) z = y;
    else z = - y;
    z; })

    which is a special gcc-ism. sorry, the original patch was correct.

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