Misc

[gperciva]

I'm not certain about the last commit. Are "forever loops" the same thing as "infinite loops"?

FreeBSD style(9) states that:

Forever loops are done with for's, not while's.

...

for (;;)
        stmt;

I suspect that you'll say "let's keep the current way of defining loops; just add a note to STYLE describing our current practice".

[cperciva]

I'm interpreting "forever loop" to mean a loop which has no exit conditions, not merely one which doesn't have exit conditions in the for/while clause. So I'd say both of these are correct:

for (;;) {
    ...
}
do {
    if (...)
        break;
    ...
} while (1)

[gperciva]

Ok, rebased to remove the change to do... while loops.