On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 14:44 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:37:02 -0700 Josh Triplett <josht@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Sparse warns about do-while loops without braces; Linus's rationale from the > > Sparse Git changelog: > > > Add warning message for naked do-while > > > > > > Does it necessarily make sense? Dunno, but it does tend to be bad > > > practice, or at least result in code that can be hard to mentally parse. > > > > > > Maybe that mental parsing is just me. Or maybe it should be warned > > > about. You decide. > > > > Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@xxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > Documentation/CodingStyle | 7 +++++++ > > 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > > > diff --git a/Documentation/CodingStyle b/Documentation/CodingStyle > > index 7f1730f..f12e4b8 100644 > > --- a/Documentation/CodingStyle > > +++ b/Documentation/CodingStyle > > @@ -175,6 +175,13 @@ if (condition) { > > otherwise(); > > } > > > > +This also does not apply to a do-while loop; always use braces with a do-while, > > +even if it contains a single statement: > > + > > +do { > > + this(); > > +} while(condition); > > + > > err, your example has broken coding style. Oops; thanks for catching that. :) - Josh Triplett - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sparse" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html