Re: question about linker

Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> writes:

On Wed, 11 Dec 2024 21:19:54 +0000
bart <bc@freeuk.com> wrote:
>

This also comes up with 'while (cond); {...}'.

>
$ cat foo.c
void foo(int x)
{
  while (x--);
    bar();
}
>
$ clang-format < foo.c
void foo(int x) {
  while (x--)
    ;
  bar();
}
>
Do I use clamg-format myself?  No, I don't.
>
And I don't know why C formatters are generally less popular among C
programmers then, for example, go formater among Go programmers or Rust
formatter among Rust programmers.

I don't have any experience with Go formatters or Rust formatters.
My experience with C formatters is that they format too much;  in
some ways they help, but in other ways they interfere with choices
that are incidental to the high-level adjustments desired.  It
would be nice to see a code formatter that respects low-level
choices while adjusting high-level format rules.  To say this
another way, the formatting that is done is too rigid - the tool
always adjusts everything, instead of adjusting only those aspects
that are needed to fix the high-level transgressions.