Re: [PATCH] add wait_event_interruptible_exclusive() macro

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue Jun 22 2004 - 07:32:21 EST


On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 05:01:30AM -0700, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> Thsi reminds me...
>
> I really loath all the preprocessor macros. I know there are plenty
> of this already, but I don't see the advantage of macros over (static)
> inline functions which IMO look cleaner and give gcc some change to
> sanitize what it's looking at without actually having to have it used.
>
> Is there a reason why we keep doing this?

In this case a macro is the only sensible way. Check how the arguments
are used in wait_event_*

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