fake loop

From: Andrey Ilinykh (ailinykh@usa.net)
Date: Fri Aug 03 2001 - 10:57:34 EST

Hi!
Very often I see in kernel such code as
do {
  dosomthing();
} while(0);

or even

#define prepare_to_switch() do { } while(0)

Who can explain me a reason for these fake loops?
Thank you,
  Andrey

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