Dan McDonald wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 11:16:55AM -0700, Bart Smaalders wrote:
>> #define timerclear(t) { struct timeval *a = (t); a->tv_sec = a->tv_usec = 0;
>> }
>>
>> seems to be a reasonable fix.
>
> Until you do something like:
>
> if (foo)
> timerclear(&t); /* XXX KEBE SAYS SYNTAX ERROR */
> else
> something_else();
>
> I thought we were trying to not be different than the rest of the world now?
>
There just isn't any good way around this w/ std C, so we'll have to live
w/ the accidental side effects problems.
If the lint fix is critical, you can change the definition of the macro when
using lint to use a non-constant conditional...
- Bart
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