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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc1] ib_verbs: Use explicit if-else statements to avoid errors with do-while macros
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On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 23:45 -0800, Roland Dreier wrote:
> > IOW, do ; while(0) / do { } while (0) is not a proper way to do a macro
> > that imitates a function returning void.
> >
> > Objections?
>
> None from me, although the ternary ? : is a pretty odd way to write
>
> if (blah)
> do_this_void_function();
> else
> do_that_void_function();
>
> so I'm in favor of that half of the patch anyway. It's my fault for
> not noticing that part of the patch in the first place.
>
> Changing the non-void ? : constructions is just churn, but there's no
> sense changing it again now that the patch is merged.

The rest of it was just for consistency sake.
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