Re: Code optimization: warning for code that hangs

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On 6/24/2012 12:09 PM, Ángel González wrote:
"Peter A. Felvegi" writes:
My question is: wouldn't it be possible to print a warning when a jmp
to itself or trivial infinite recursion is generated? The code
compiled fine w/ -Wall -Wextra -Werror w/ 4.6 and 4.7.
Note that if the target architecture is a microcontroller, an endless
loop can be a legitimate way to finish / abort the program.


But not an infinite recursion! And an endless loop is such a rare
case that it deserves a warning, it's a false positive in this case,
so what?



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