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From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use "do...while (0)", not "if (1)..else" in macro definitions.
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:42:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87myqgbghd.fsf@rho.meyering.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877ihu84ub.fsf@rho.meyering.net> (Jim Meyering's message of "Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:19:56 +0100")

> 2008-01-28  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>
>
> 	Use "do...while (0)", not "if (1)..else" in macro definitions.
> 	The latter provokes a warning from gcc about the empty else, when
> 	followed by ";".  Also, without that trailing semicolon, it would
> 	silently swallow up any following statement.
> 	* syntax.h (SETUP_SYNTAX_TABLE):
> 	(SETUP_SYNTAX_TABLE_FOR_OBJECT): Likewise.
> 	* buffer.h (DECODE_POSITION): Likewise.
> 	* charset.h (FETCH_STRING_CHAR_ADVANCE): Likewise.
> 	(FETCH_STRING_CHAR_ADVANCE_NO_CHECK): Likewise.
> 	(FETCH_CHAR_ADVANCE): Likewise.

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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-28 13:19 [PATCH] Use "do...while (0)", not "if (1)..else" in macro definitions Jim Meyering
2008-02-04 20:42 ` Jim Meyering [this message]
2008-02-05  7:09   ` Jan Djärv
2008-02-07 12:56   ` Jan Djärv

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