Question about a C code (why the do-while loop?)

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C question

Hi,

I stumbled upon this code

Code: 
#if !defined(USE_INTERRUPTS)
#define Init()    
#else                    
#define Init()                      do { InitTMR2();\
                                    } while (0)

and I don’t understand why the do-while loop is used. Why not just skip it?

By the way I’m not sure this is the right forum, sorry

Alsig
 

Re: C question

Sure, you can skip the while no need for that here
 

C question

It may be leftover debugging code. The programmer can make the loop spin forever by simply changing the 0 to 1.
 

Re: C question

echo47 said:
It may be leftover debugging code. The programmer can make the loop spin forever by simply changing the 0 to 1.
Click to expand...

What could be the reason to make timer initialization (InitTMR2) forever? ;-)

I think this is just phantom stubs code. Just delete this "do-while".
Also, I think the following article will be helpful for everyone. I read it with pleasure.
https://www.nedbatchelder.com/text/deleting-code.html
 

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