Libin Varghese wrote: > Hi, > In linux/list.h, there is the following lines. Why use a do-while > loop when the statements inside is run only once. > > #define INIT_LIST_HEAD(ptr) do { \ > (ptr)->next = (ptr); (ptr)->prev = (ptr); \ > } while (0) See http://www.kernelnewbies.org/faq/ -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/