On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 10:35:10AM -0400, Derrick Stolee wrote: > I thinks I had something like > > for ((list) && item = (list)->items; (list) && item && ... I wrote something like this: --- >8 --- diff --git a/string-list.h b/string-list.h index d5a744e143..425abc55f4 100644 --- a/string-list.h +++ b/string-list.h @@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ int for_each_string_list(struct string_list *list, /** Iterate over each item, as a macro. */ #define for_each_string_list_item(item,list) \ - for (item = (list)->items; \ + for (item = (list) ? (list)->items : NULL; \ item && item < (list)->items + (list)->nr; \ ++item) --- 8< --- > but even with your suggestion, I get this compiler error: ...so did I. Though I'm not sure I understand the compiler's warning here. Surely the thing being passed as list in the macro expansion _won't_ always evaluate to non-NULL, will it? Thanks, Taylor