Re: Concatenated if and preprocessor

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From	Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com>
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Subject	Re: Concatenated if and preprocessor
Date	Fri, 14 Mar 2025 13:40:26 -0700
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Richard Harnden <richard.nospam@gmail.invalid> writes:

> On 14/03/2025 16:44, Tim Rentsch wrote:
>
>>    for(  int just_once = 1;  just_once;  just_once = 0  ){
>
> Any reason not to say ...
>
> do {
>     ...
> } while (0);
>
> ... ?

In fact using do/while(0) is what I first wrote.  But then
I thought, oh wait, what if an overzealous compiler gives
a warning because the while() expression is always false? :-/

It's because of examples like this that I am wary of rules
like "enable all warnings" and "treat any warning condition
as an error."  I recently ran across a set of coding standard
rules that included these rules:  not just /some/ warning
conditions, but ALL warning conditions.  I still don't know
if they were literally serious.  (And my understanding is
clang has a -Weverything option, which enables all warning
conditions that clang is able to test for, no matter how
silly.)

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  Re: Concatenated if and preprocessor David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2025-03-13 16:55 +0100
  Re: Concatenated if and preprocessor scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-03-13 16:11 +0000
  Re: Concatenated if and preprocessor James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2025-03-13 12:07 -0400
  Re: Concatenated if and preprocessor Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2025-03-13 16:30 +0000
  Re: Concatenated if and preprocessor bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2025-03-13 17:29 +0000
  Re: Concatenated if and preprocessor Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2025-03-13 14:37 -0700
    Re: Concatenated if and preprocessor Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2025-03-13 18:25 -0500
      Re: Concatenated if and preprocessor Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2025-03-14 09:26 -0700
  Re: Concatenated if and preprocessor James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2025-03-13 12:19 -0400
  Re: Concatenated if and preprocessor pozz <pozzugno@gmail.com> - 2025-03-14 13:02 +0100
    Re: Concatenated if and preprocessor David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2025-03-14 14:13 +0100
    Re: Concatenated if and preprocessor Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2025-03-14 13:44 +0000
    Re: Concatenated if and preprocessor Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2025-03-14 09:44 -0700
      Re: Concatenated if and preprocessor Richard Harnden <richard.nospam@gmail.invalid> - 2025-03-14 18:15 +0000
        Re: Concatenated if and preprocessor Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2025-03-14 13:40 -0700
          Re: Concatenated if and preprocessor Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2025-03-14 14:10 -0700
            Re: Concatenated if and preprocessor Richard Harnden <richard.nospam@gmail.invalid> - 2025-03-14 21:31 +0000
              Re: Concatenated if and preprocessor Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2025-03-14 15:29 -0700
                Re: Concatenated if and preprocessor David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2025-03-15 17:32 +0100
            Re: Concatenated if and preprocessor Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2025-03-14 15:57 -0700
              Re: Concatenated if and preprocessor Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2025-03-14 16:27 -0700
                Re: Concatenated if and preprocessor scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-03-15 15:06 +0000
                Re: Concatenated if and preprocessor Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2025-03-15 08:49 -0700
                Re: Concatenated if and preprocessor scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-03-15 17:28 +0000
            Re: Concatenated if and preprocessor David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2025-03-15 17:28 +0100
        Re: Concatenated if and preprocessor Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-03-15 07:03 +0000
    Re: Concatenated if and preprocessor Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2025-03-14 11:10 -0700
    Re: Concatenated if and preprocessor James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2025-03-14 23:20 -0400

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