YALF (yet another lint foulup)

[Henry Spencer]

In article <717 at auspex.UUCP> guy at auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris) writes:
>just stick
>
>	/*NOTREACHED*/
>
>after the loop in question to convince "lint" that the loop really
>doesn't terminate.

And as a not-so-minor bonus, in a non-trivial program with a non-trivial
loop cluttered with other code, this also makes it rather more obvious
to *humans* that the loop is not supposed to terminate.
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