Re: Good C programming style

On 2005-10-10 15:31:40 +0200, Chris Dollin <kers@xxxxxxxxxx> said:

Sensei wrote:

So why I see so often something like:

#define CEXCERPT do { \
some(); \
C_code(); \
here(); \
} while(0)

Is it just some person thinking he would achieve more speed? 

No, it's some person arranging that their macro can be expanded
as     CEXCERPT;

without confusion. (I would have thought, even more likely
with a parameterised macro.)


I understood why he does not use a ; at the end, but why someone would have such a big macro... is beyond my knowledge, something like the xge_whatever stuff I found... :)

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