svn commit: r240549 - head/sys/arm/tegra

Alexey Dokuchaev danfe at FreeBSD.org
Sun Sep 16 09:53:56 UTC 2012


On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 10:37:56AM +0100, Chris Rees wrote:
> On 16 September 2012 10:28, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at 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.

./danfe


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