[FFmpeg-devel] [Patch] Fix for static leaks in h264.c

[Måns Rullgård]

Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> writes:

> On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 01:34:19PM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>> Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> writes:
>> 
>> > Iam fine with the patch in principle but not the do/while(). I do not like
>> > do-whiled macros.
>> 
>> Why not?  They are usually considered a Good Thing (tm).
>
> Yes i know, i just find them ugly and think thei uglyness outweights their
> advatages.
>
> if()
>     MACRO();
> else
>     ...
>
> would fail without the do/while
>
> while
> if(){
>     MACRO();
> }else
>
> would work
>
> Maybe its just me but, i feel that the idea that any macro should behave
> exactly like a function is the problem ...

Have you ever had to debug a bizarre problem that turned out to be
caused by misbehaving macros in code you didn't write?  If there's an
else, you at least get a compilation error.  If the macro consists of
several naked statements, and there is no else, you get very
interesting results.

> Of course for macros which do look like functions i agree that the do/while
> should be added, but anything written in all upper case does not look like
> a function.

Function or not, the way it is used, it looks like a single
*statement*, and should behave like one.  It's a very simple way to
avoid hard to find bugs, especially since you encourage if statements
without {}.

> All just IMHO, iam not strongly objecting do/while if more people want
> them than not.

I'll keep using it in code I write.

-- 
M?ns Rullg?rd
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