Re: [PATCH] abuse of macros in swab.h

[Andi Kleen]

On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 01:58:32AM +0200, Martin Dalecki wrote:
> Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 01:22:50AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > Better would be to use statement blocks like
> > > #define bla(x) ({ __u32 tmp__ = (x); ....; tmp__; })
> > 
> > Agreed.
> 
> Not agreed. In this case older version of GCC will have
> almost exactly the same provlems as with functions.

If they had they wouldn't be able to compile the linux kernel
anyways (e.g. read asm-i386/uaccess.h) 

-Andi
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