Codeing style questions

[Parmelan, Edouard]

> 1) in kaffe-1.0.b3/kaffe/kaffevm/readClassConfig.h I see stuff like
> this:
> 
> 		do {
> 				/* blah, blah, blah */
> 		} while(0)
> 
> How is this semantically different from just opening a block, i.e.:
> 
> 		{
> 				/* blah, blah, blah */
> 		}
> 

This construct is used as the definition of a macro
function.

Think about that:

if (test)
   MACRO(...);
else

with out do { ... } while(0), the compiler
reports an error on 'else'.

if (test)
  {
    blah blah
  };
else


Edouard.