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| author | Daniel Mack <github@zonque.org> | 2015-07-31 20:07:11 +0200 |
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| committer | Daniel Mack <github@zonque.org> | 2015-07-31 20:07:11 +0200 |
| commit | 97d09a62836e1c6f807837cf47e83c970cecb06b (patch) | |
| tree | 5ecfe2ed59429b5ec3ebea3606903d6d5ff7cf27 | |
| parent | c474a4ecfa74d90d02822d24efa310197a5c3298 (diff) | |
| parent | cad6982291a0e3cae4b8b1fad140ffd512e2835c (diff) | |
Merge pull request #815 from poettering/coding-style-for
CODING_STYLE: say that "for (;;)" is better than "while (1)"
| -rw-r--r-- | CODING_STYLE | 7 |
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diff --git a/CODING_STYLE b/CODING_STYLE index dbadfbdb54..a96ddd3598 100644 --- a/CODING_STYLE +++ b/CODING_STYLE @@ -314,3 +314,10 @@ are always defined after more global ones. Thus, our local definitions will never "leak" into the global header files, possibly altering their effect due to #ifdeffery. + +- To implement an endless loop, use "for (;;)" rather than "while + (1)". The latter is a bit ugly anyway, since you probably really + meant "while (true)"... To avoid the discussion what the right + always-true expression for an infinite while() loop is our + recommendation is to simply write it without any such expression by + using "for (;;)". |