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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C Quirk??
Message-ID: <2144@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 18 Feb 88 01:29:53 GMT
References: <1653@ssc-vax.UUCP> <804@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> <23498@hi.unm.edu> <186@ateng.UUCP> <885@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> <413@fig.bbn.com>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <413@fig.bbn.com> rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) writes:
>As a general rule, you probably don't want to use { } in #define's
>as  { }; is not the same as { }.

Thomas Plum says this should work:

#define stuff(x)         do { ... } while (0)
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