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Date:      Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:06:57 -0700
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        =?UTF-8?B?RGFnLUVybGluZyBTbcO4cmdyYXY=?= <des@des.no>
Cc:        svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, rse@FreeBSD.org, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r193223 - head/bin/sh
Message-ID:  <4A2418C1.5020406@elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <86vdnfq1t3.fsf@ds4.des.no>
References:  <200906011111.n51BBkZt077175@svn.freebsd.org>	<20090601.104358.-345495454.imp@bsdimp.com> <86vdnfq1t3.fsf@ds4.des.no>

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Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> writes:
>> : @@ -187,7 +187,8 @@ padvance(char **path, char *name)
>> :  	if (*path == NULL)
>> :  		return NULL;
>> :  	start = *path;
>> : -	for (p = start ; *p && *p != ':' && *p != '%' ; p++);
>> : +	for (p = start; *p && *p != ':' && *p != '%'; p++)
>> : +		; /* nothing */
>>
>> C already has a way of saying this:
>>
>> 	for (p = start; *p && *p != ':' && *p != '%'; p++)
>> 		contionue;
> 
> It's a matter of taste.  There is plenty of precedent for
> 
>         /* nothing */ ;
> 
> and some for
> 
>         ; /* nothing */
> 
> (for varying spellings of "nothing") in the tree.
> 
> DES


and just for bikeshed's sake, In non BSD code I prefer
for (p = start; *p && *p != ':' && *p != '%'; p++)
	{ /* Nothing */ }

for (p = start; *p && *p != ':' && *p != '%'; p++) {
  /* Nothing extra */
}



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