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authorSven Eden <yamakuzure@gmx.net>2017-01-03 12:52:57 +0100
committerSven Eden <yamakuzure@gmx.net>2017-03-14 10:18:46 +0100
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are always defined after more global ones. Thus, our local
definitions will never "leak" into the global header files, possibly
altering their effect due to #ifdeffery.
+
+- To implement an endless loop, use "for (;;)" rather than "while
+ (1)". The latter is a bit ugly anyway, since you probably really
+ meant "while (true)"... To avoid the discussion what the right
+ always-true expression for an infinite while() loop is our
+ recommendation is to simply write it without any such expression by
+ using "for (;;)".