loops

[boopathy Gopalsamy]

hi,
could any of u tell why this code doesn't produce an unreachable statement error.

code snippet:
do
for(;true ;
while(true)

[Mike Gershman]

Which statement do you think is unreachable?

[Simon Cockayne]

Hi,

I see a SMILEY face in the example code. So I am not sure what the syntax was supposed to look like...

Is this because the code is not added within CODE tags?

Cheers,

Si.

[Jeff Tian]

Any code that you have after that do while loop will be unreachable.

[Carol Enderlin]

You can check the "Disable smilies in this post" checkbox to make that kind of thing readable.

And use the pencil icon to go back and edit it.
[ March 29, 2005: Message edited by: Carol Enderlin ]

[Mike Gershman]

If there are no statements after the while clause, there are no unreachable statements.

[Jeff Jetton]

do
   for(;true;);
while(true)

I've reposted what I think the original poster's code is.

So the "for" loop is infinite, right? So wouldn't the "while" clause itself be unreachable? Or does the compiler evaluate the "while" before it moves in to look at what inside the loop?

- Jeff
[ March 30, 2005: Message edited by: Jeff Jetton ]

[Animesh Shrivastava]

The compiler just checks here if do statement is reachable or not, The do statement here meaning do-while. So u cant seperate out do and while, its the same.