G++ question

[Mark Mitchell]

Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:

> Both branches of the if-statement contain an unconditional "break",
> which implies that the apparant unbounded while-loop is executed only
> once.  If that reasoning is correct, why do we have the while-loop in
> the first place? 

Historical accident; a patch to remove it is pre-approved after testing.

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