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Subject: Re: Crafty internal iterative deepening

Author: Tijs van Dam

Date: 08:08:50 01/26/00

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On January 26, 2000 at 10:59:13, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:

>On January 26, 2000 at 08:08:01, Tijs van Dam wrote:
>
>
>>  tree->next_status[ply].phase=FIRST_PHASE;
>>  if (tree->hash_move[ply]==0 && do_null && depth>=3*INCPLY) do {
>>  ....
>>  } while(0);
>
>The  "do  { ... } while (0)"
>above looks peculiar to me. Another copy mistake ?

No, Dr. Hyatt uses this construction a lot. You can break anywhere inside the do
and continue with what's beyond it. Like "return;" in the middle of a function.
IMHO, i think it's ugly. And my compiler broke on it in Crafty's evaluation
function.

>
>Uli



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