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Date:      Sun, 16 Sep 2012 08:09:20 -0700
From:      mdf@FreeBSD.org
To:        Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Chris Rees <crees@freebsd.org>, Andrew Turner <andrew@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r240549 - head/sys/arm/tegra
Message-ID:  <CAMBSHm_6YAQeLAgXm4mu5mT76T1irfmQdWx=PVfOx%2B5ihLnksQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20120916095355.GA83285@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201209160755.q8G7tnMH036332@svn.freebsd.org> <20120916092818.GA81952@FreeBSD.org> <CADLo83-5zQBdf3ndBXO4qbkXJgaFPxGfE86LSDGqJ4g3k_4gkw@mail.gmail.com> <20120916095355.GA83285@FreeBSD.org>

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On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 2:53 AM, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 10:37:56AM +0100, Chris Rees wrote:
>> On 16 September 2012 10:28, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> > I thought preferred and more style(9) compliant way to code [empty
>> > endless loop] is:
>> >
>> >         for (;;)
>> >                 continue;
>>
>> Actually:
>>
>> for (;;)
>>         ;
>
> Explicit "continue" is supposed to tell reviewer that original author did
> not make a typo, but indeed knew what he was doing.  Lonely semicolon is too
> ambiguous in this case.

The semicolon being on its own line is not ambiguous, and is good
style everywhere.  A semicolon on the same line as a while or for is a
red flag that it may be unintentional.

Cheers,
matthew



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