Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 23:34:24 +0200
From: Marc Lehmann <pcg AT goof DOT com>
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Subject: Re: What's up with this??
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On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 01:50:03PM -0600, RH <rdh AT wt DOT net> wrote:
> do {
>     /*stuff*/
> while(0);

> I don't get this... Seems stupid and pointless.

Consider a macro like this:

#define doit() call_something(); call_something_else()

And then this:

if ()
   doit();

Doing it using the while loops makes it a statement in all cases (there
are more subtle problems that are solved).

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