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Date:      Sat, 27 Sep 2008 22:10:59 -0600 (MDT)
From:      "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        cperciva@freebsd.org
Cc:        cvs-src@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/cfe cfe_console.c
Message-ID:  <20080927.221059.-108809907.imp@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <48DEFFDE.5020300@freebsd.org>
References:  <200809280333.m8S3XABp063809@repoman.freebsd.org> <48DEFFDE.5020300@freebsd.org>

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            Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> writes:
: Warner Losh wrote:
: >   Change while (cond)\n\t\t; to while (cond)\n\t\tcontinue; since the
: >   former more explicitly tells the compiler that you want an empty loop.
: >   There are some lint programs that use this hint to avoid generating
: >   warnings.
: 
: In style(9) the example
: 	for (p = buf; *p != '\0'; ++p)
: 		;	/* nothing */
: is given, but I really like the explicit continue; enough so that I'm
: wondering if the example in style(9) should be changed to
: 	for (p = buf; *p != '\0'; ++p)
: 		continue;
: to encourage people to write that way (I hope I'm not the only person
: who simply never thought of adding the explicit continue?).
: 
: Realizing that questions of style tend to provoke huge debates: Please
: send me your opinions off-list, and I'll only make this change if the
: emails I get are at least 75% in favour.

I think this is a good change.

I do it in my code because I got used to it when tools enforced it
years ago...  I like it, but I'm sure others will differ.

Warner



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