empty function macros

[Alexander Best]

On Sun Jan 30 11, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 17:29:41 +0000
> Alexander Best <arundel at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > hi there,
> > 
> > i noticed freebsd has a few of the following macros:
> > 
> > #define FUNC(sb)
> > 
> > when you do something like
> > 
> > if (cond)
> >     FUNC(i)
> > 
> > the compiler complains about an if statement with an empty body. any sensible
> > way of dealing with this issue?
> > 
> > i saw some reiserfs code which does the following to silence compilers:
> > 
> > #define FUNC(sb) do { } while (0)
> > 
> 
> What happens if you treat it like a real function call and put ';'
> after it?

sorry this was my fault. it should have actually been:

if (cond)
    FUNC(i);

basically, since FUNC evaluates to nothing this results in

if (cond)
    ;

while gcc doesn't complain, clang does.

cheers.
alex

> 
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> Gary Jennejohn (gj@)

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