>> Actually, a "once" construct would do the trick nicely.
> Are we seriously suggesting C constructs for the kernel?  Does GCC 3
> already have this, or do you have reason to think the GCC maintainers
> buy it back?

C may not have it, but gcc has it already, assuming concurrency issues
can be ignored:

#define ONCE if (({ static int x = 0; int y; y=x; x=1; !y; }))

then

	ONCE {
		....
	}

(Well, you may want less-likely-to-clash names than x or y, but aside
from that it should work.  You can use while instead of if if you're
concerned about dangling elses.)

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