Suspicious code in kdebase 3.5.2

Thiago Macieira thiago at kde.org
Sat Apr 8 10:14:00 BST 2006


Christoph Bartoschek wrote:
>Am Samstag, 8. April 2006 10:43 schrieb Ismail Donmez:
>> > This while(1) loop can be executed at most once.
>>
>> Why?
>
>Because each path you choose in this loop lets it break.  There is no
> continue in the loop and the last command is return Tok_str;

The whole point is to be able to break. It's like an enhanced goto.

But it should be a do { ... } while(0); loop so as to not confuse people.
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