tricky do-while

[Mohanasundaram]

Hi All,

I saw in some code

do{//for error jump
/*Some code here*/
}while(0);

Can anyone plese tell me what is the purpose of this code? There was a
comment saying that //for error jump. What does it mean? There is no
error related code inside the do-while block. I guess the comment
specifies the reason for that block.

Regards,
Mohan.

[lallous]

"Mohanasundaram " <mo************ @msn.com> wrote in message
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Hi All,

I saw in some code

do{//for error jump
/*Some code here*/
}while(0);

Can anyone plese tell me what is the purpose of this code? There was a
comment saying that //for error jump. What does it mean? There is no
error related code inside the do-while block. I guess the comment
specifies the reason for that block.

Regards,
Mohan.

Hello,

This is used to break out of a code in case of errors...consid er this:
do
{
/* ....... */
if (!someFunction( ))
break;
/* .... */
if (!someChecks())
break;
/* ......*/
} while (0);
/* put here some de-initialization code */

Follow this thread for more info:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...fe=off&frame=r
ight&th=b90082f 332d8b543

--
Elias

[Richard Bos]

mo************@ msn.com (Mohanasundaram ) wrote:

I saw in some code

do{//for error jump
/*Some code here*/
}while(0);

Can anyone plese tell me what is the purpose of this code?

The purpose of this code is to write spaghetti code, yet at the same
avoiding the use of goto to satisfy the anal-retentive reviewers.

IOW, it's an illegible botch. If you need a goto, damn well use one.

Richard

[David Rubin]

Mohanasundaram wrote:

Hi All,

I saw in some code

do{//for error jump
/*Some code here*/
}while(0);

Can anyone plese tell me what is the purpose of this code? There was a
comment saying that //for error jump. What does it mean? There is no
error related code inside the do-while block. I guess the comment
specifies the reason for that block.

Richard Bos' comments notwithstanding , this idiom is more commonly seen in debug
macros to avoid dangling else clauses, and to introduce a new scope.

/david

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[Richard Bos]

David Rubin <no****@nowhere .net> wrote:

Mohanasundaram wrote:

do{//for error jump
/*Some code here*/
}while(0);

Can anyone plese tell me what is the purpose of this code? There was a
comment saying that //for error jump. What does it mean? There is no
error related code inside the do-while block. I guess the comment
specifies the reason for that block.

Richard Bos' comments notwithstanding , this idiom is more commonly seen in debug
macros to avoid dangling else clauses, and to introduce a new scope.

It is rarely seen with that comment in macros (where, you are correct,
it _is_ useful), and to introduce a new scope a simple pair of braces
suffices.

Richard