Re: [PATCH] byteorder: force in-place endian conversion to alwaysevaluate args

[H. Peter Anvin]

Harvey Harrison wrote:
> David Miller reported breakage in ide when the in-place byteorder helpers
> were used as the macros do not always evaluate their args which led to
> an infinite loop.
>
> Just make them functions to ensure they always do so.

> -#define __cpu_to_be64s(x) do {} while (0)

For what it's worth, the way to write a macro like this:

#define __cpu_to_be64s(x) ((void)(x))

	-hpa
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