Re: [ft-devel] Freetype-devel post from address@hidden requires approval

[Miles Bader]

Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> writes:
>> After a bit more consideration I suspect it's simply the '0' in
>> "while (0)" that's causing all the warnings.
>
> Is this really true?  Can you check that explicitly?  The `do{...}
> while(0)' construction is extremely useful and so common that it
> would make the MSVC warning completely useless.

Indeed so common that it can be called idiomatic in this usage (and
has been as long as I can remember).

Given it's idiomatic nature, it's pretty surprising that any widely
used compiler warns about it, even at maximum warning settings....

-miles

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