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From: George France <france AT crl DOT dec DOT com>
To: "'pgcc AT delorie DOT com'" <pgcc AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: RE: What's up with this??
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 19:51:59 -0400 
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It is not moot; it is so that inline macro's expand properly. See the gcc or
linux-kernel archives for more details.

--George

George France,      france AT crl DOT dec DOT com
Cambridge Research Laboratory, Compaq Computer Corporation
One Cambridgecenter    MS: CRL
Cambridge, MA 02142 USA



-----Original Message-----
From: RH [mailto:rdh AT wt DOT net]
Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2000 3:50 PM
To: pgcc AT delorie DOT com
Subject: What's up with this??


I have been wondering why in the world is code mostly in macros of the form.

do {
    /*stuff*/
while(0);



I don't get this... Seems stupid and pointless.  So I would just like an
explination and if its moot now a days, why don't people start removing
them...

Thx,

Ron