Re: Style and Conventions: Multi-line function-like macro formatting.

[Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>]

On 01/18/2018 12:46 PM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Jan 2018, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> 
>> I think we're in violent agreement:  An inline function should be used
>> whenever possible.  If it is not possible, use do { } while (0) unless
>> the macro needs to act like an expression.
>>
>> The wiki should probably also mention the need to use (__extension__
>> ({ ... })) when the construct appears in public headers.
> 
> I've now edited the wiki page accordingly.
 
Thank you all for the fedback and adjusted comments!

I think what we have now is better than the vague recollections we had
before about what should or might be used in glibc.

I wrote this specifically as a consequence of Arjun's recent patch to
change some malloc function-like macros. Hopefully we'll cleanup some
uses in malloc thanks to this.

-- 
Cheers,
Carlos.