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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

found the following in our codebase the other day.

while(booleanFlag)
    return;

thhere wasn't more in the loop body, that was it. the loop conditional does exist and it can hurt you.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Can it hurt you, though? My guess would be every sane compiler and interpreter optimizes this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

the codebase readability certainly suffers, and this isn't the only case of shenanigans like this