#include "wx/defs.h"
-/* checked deleters are used to make sure that the
- type being deleted is really a complete type.
- - Jesse Lovelace <jllovela@eos.ncsu.edu>
+/*
+ checked deleters are used to make sure that the type being deleted is really
+ a complete type.: otherwise sizeof() would result in a compile-time error
+
+ do { ... } while ( 0 ) construct is used to have an anonymous scope
+ (otherwise we could have name clashes between different "complete"s) but
+ still force a semicolon after the macro
*/
-#define wxCHECKED_DELETE(ptr) \
- if (true) { \
- typedef char complete[sizeof(*ptr)]; \
- delete ptr; \
- }
-
-#define wxCHECKED_DELETE_ARRAY(ptr) \
- if (true) { \
- typedef char complete[sizeof(*ptr)]; \
- delete [] ptr; \
- }
+#define wxCHECKED_DELETE(ptr) \
+ do \
+ { \
+ typedef char complete[sizeof(*ptr)]; \
+ delete ptr; \
+ } while ( 0 )
+
+#define wxCHECKED_DELETE_ARRAY(ptr) \
+ do \
+ { \
+ typedef char complete[sizeof(*ptr)]; \
+ delete [] ptr; \
+ } while ( 0 )
/* These scoped pointers are *not* assignable and cannot be used
within a container. Look for wxDECLARE_SHARED_PTR for this