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Date:      Thu, 10 Feb 2005 17:31:23 -0700 (MST)
From:      "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        max@love2party.net
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ed if_ed.c
Message-ID:  <20050210.173123.20914349.imp@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <200502110109.55898.max@love2party.net>
References:  <200502102331.j1ANVRQP026186@repoman.freebsd.org> <86sm44nez7.fsf@xps.des.no> <200502110109.55898.max@love2party.net>

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In message: <200502110109.55898.max@love2party.net>
            Max Laier <max@love2party.net> writes:
: On Friday 11 February 2005 00:59, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote:
: > Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org> writes:
: > >   Log:
: > >   use
: > >           while (complicated-expr)
: > >                   continune;
: > >   in preference to
: > >           while (complicated-expr);
: >
: > As a matter of taste, I prefer /* nothing */ to continue in cases l=
ike
: > this.
: =

: That's what style.9 suggests, btw:
: |             for (p =3D buf; *p !=3D '\0'; ++p)
: |                     ;       /* nothing */

It also says forever loops are done with for, not while, just before.
Clearly, this isn't a forever loop, nor is the example.

Warner



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