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Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> writes:

> On Wed, 11 Dec 2024 21:19:54 +0000
> bart <bc@freeuk.com> wrote:
>
>> This also comes up with 'while (cond); {...}'.
>
> $ cat foo.c
> void foo(int x)
> {
>   while (x--);
>     bar();
> }
>
> $ clang-format < foo.c
> void foo(int x) {
>   while (x--)
>     ;
>   bar();
> }
>
> Do I use clamg-format myself?  No, I don't.
>
> And I don't know why C formatters are generally less popular among C
> programmers then, for example, go formater among Go programmers or Rust
> formatter among Rust programmers.

I don't have any experience with Go formatters or Rust formatters.
My experience with C formatters is that they format too much;  in
some ways they help, but in other ways they interfere with choices
that are incidental to the high-level adjustments desired.  It
would be nice to see a code formatter that respects low-level
choices while adjusting high-level format rules.  To say this
another way, the formatting that is done is too rigid - the tool
always adjusts everything, instead of adjusting only those aspects
that are needed to fix the high-level transgressions.