Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754538AbYABMPy (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jan 2008 07:15:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750881AbYABMPq (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jan 2008 07:15:46 -0500 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.171]:49267 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750855AbYABMPp (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jan 2008 07:15:45 -0500 From: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> Subject: Re: macro _set_base - "do - while(0)" question To: Abdel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Reply-To: 7eggert@gmx.de Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 13:15:33 +0100 References: <9HagT-66H-21@gated-at.bofh.it> User-Agent: KNode/0.10.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Message-Id: X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner-Information: See www.mailscanner.info for information X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner-From: 7eggert@gmx.de X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX193ObQBHVN4qYYT78G4ESqR95+8SwFvE00YMsi ubrIQFF6wthXDoWwb1qEk4YR2FD2WIVNLuaMQTHoQwvzyn6agj St6aabijbHNQVMzAXm4Dg== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 442 Lines: 8 Abdel wrote: > In file include/asm-i386/system.h, _set_base and _set_limit use an > useless do ... while(0) > > Why is this needed ? http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ/DoWhile0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/