[gcc-in-cxx] Put empty loop ';' on new line
Ben Elliston
bje@au1.ibm.com
Mon Feb 2 04:06:00 GMT 2009
> > g++ warns when a loop is terminated by a semicolon with no intervening
> > whitespace. This patch avoids this warning in several cases by
> > adding a newline and appropriate indentation. Committed to gcc-in-cxx
> > branch.
>
> This is probably a stupid question, but why are there empty loops to
> begin with?
These loop constructs employ side effects. For example, in the loops in
sched-rgn.c, a loop control variable is decremented and then used after
the loop has completed.
Ben
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