On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 6:35 AM, Ravi Pokala <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Mateusz,
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: <[email protected]> on behalf of Mateusz Guzik
> <[email protected]>
> Date: 2018-06-06, Wednesday at 01:08
> To: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, <
> [email protected]>
> Subject: svn commit: r334702 - head/sys/sys
>
> > ...
> >  #ifdef _KERNEL
> >  #define      malloc(size, type, flags) ({
>       \
>
> Now that I'm taking another look at this, I'm confused as to why the
> entire macro expansion is inside parentheses? (The braces make sense, since
> this is a block with local variables which need to be contained.)
>

This is a gcc (and clang) extension to allow the macro body to be a code
block -- standard C gets unhappy with just the curly braces.
https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Statement-Exprs.html is a maybe-relevant
page that google found me.

-Ben
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