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Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 16:21:49 -0700 (PDT)
From: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: linux/macros.h(new) and linux/list.h(mod) ...
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, <phillips@bonn-fries.net (Daniel Phillips)>,
        <dwmw2@infradead.org (David Woodhouse)>
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On 05-Jul-2001 Alan Cox wrote:
>> Life's a bitch.
>> cf. get_user(__ret_gu, __val_gu); (on i386)
>> 
>> Time to invent a gcc extension which gives us unique names? :)
> 
>#define min(a,b) __magic_minfoo(a,b, __var##__LINE__, __var2##__LINE__)
> 
>#define __magic_minfoo(A,B,C,D) \
>       { typeof(A) C = (A)  .... }

Anyway I think that :

int _a = 5;

for (;;) {
        int _a = _a;
        ...
}

must :

1) assign the upper level value of _a

or :

2) generate an compiler error





- Davide

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