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1. BobbyTables2 · 1789744507 · focus · HN ↗

   TLDR: For almost 1/6 of a century, the C++ standards broke the simplest infinite loop and only just recently fixed it.

   Idiots!

   Don’t they really that people write real programs to solve real problems? This isn’t a theoretical academic exercise!

   1. Sharlin · 1789745143 · focus · HN ↗

      The argument is that an infinite loop without side effects isn't a real program. It's not useful for anything except wasting cycles.

      1. kibwen · 1789745846 · focus · HN ↗

         And unfortunately that argument would be incorrect, because not only is there a realistic chance of hitting this on embedded systems, the fact that LLVM baked this into its low-level semantics resulted in miscompilations in Rust for a time, where `loop {}` is a valid way to implement a diverging function: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rust-lang&#x2F;rust&#x2F;issues&#x2F;28728" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rust-lang&#x2F;rust&#x2F;issues&#x2F;28728

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