On 23-Oct-01 Peter Wemm wrote:
> John Baldwin wrote:
> 
>> Also, one final note about using do { } while(0).  If you actually read
>> style(9), you will see that you are supposed to use it for compound
>> statement
>     s,
>> not just for any macro that happens to be more than one line long.  If the
>> macro's body is a single statement, it doesn't need the do { } while (0)
>> bit.
> 
> It was there so that the macro didn't have a "value".  Since you're
> changing this so they all have a meaningful return (eg: TUNABLE_STR_FETCH()
> did not before) then removing this makes sense.

Fair enough.  It was more a side commentary as I've seen random commits that
make this mistake on other macros.

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