Re: [PATCH 01/10] Add support for GCC-4.5's __builtin_unreachable() to compiler.h

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 17:58, David Daney<ddaney@caviumnetworks.com> wrote:
> Michael Buesch wrote:
>>
>> On Friday 11 September 2009 01:56:42 David Daney wrote:
>>>
>>> +/* Unreachable code */
>>> +#ifndef unreachable
>>> +# define unreachable() do { for (;;) ; } while (0)
>>> +#endif
>>
>> # define unreachable() do { } while (1)
>>
>> ? :)
>
> Clearly I was not thinking clearly when I wrote that part.  RTH noted the
> same thing.  I will fix it.

However, people are so used to seeing the `do { } while (0)' idiom,
that they might miss
there's a `1' here, not a `0'.

So perhaps it's better to use plain `for (;;)' for infinite loops?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                                                Geert

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