[ros-diffs] [mnordell] 29700: [COMMENT] Added comment explaining how this code, which at first glance simply couldn't work, indeed can work. Much code (55 lines to be precise) is hidden inside a macro.

Author: mnordell
Date: Sat Oct 20 09:48:25 2007
New Revision: 29700

URL: http://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos?rev=29700&view=rev
Log:
[COMMENT] Added comment explaining how this code, which at first glance simply
couldn't work, indeed can work. Much code (55 lines to be precise) is hidden inside a
macro.

Modified:
    trunk/reactos/ntoskrnl/ke/wait.c

Modified: trunk/reactos/ntoskrnl/ke/wait.c
URL:
http://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos/trunk/reactos/ntoskrnl/ke/wait.c?rev=297…
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--- trunk/reactos/ntoskrnl/ke/wait.c (original)
+++ trunk/reactos/ntoskrnl/ke/wait.c Sat Oct 20 09:48:25 2007
@@ -544,6 +544,12 @@
 
     /*  Otherwise, we already have the lock, so initialize the wait */
     Thread->WaitNext = FALSE;
+    /*  Note that KxMultiThreadWait is a macro, defined in ke_x.h, that  */
+    /*  uses  (and modifies some of) the following local                 */
+    /*  variables:                                                       */
+    /*  Thread, Index, WaitBlock, Timer, Timeout, Hand and Swappable.    */
+    /*  If it looks like this code doesn't actually wait for any objects */
+    /*  at all, it's because the setup is done by that macro.            */
     KxMultiThreadWait();
 
     /* Start wait loop */