Cute — though the visual gag fits a little better with infinite recursion that infinite loop.
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Long ago, I made a four line recursive HTML that did this with frames. Browsers didn’t have protection against that at the time, so if you opened it and let it run, your machine would lock up.
Recursion isn't the same as as infinite loop
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The compiler (in C) is allowed to assume that infinite loops eventually terminate. This can lead to these kinds of loops not actually running forever when built with an optimizing compiler.
ISO/IEC 9899:2017 §6.8.5 “Iteration statements”, paragraph 6:
“An iteration statement may be assumed by the implementation to terminate if its controlling expression is not a constant expression, and none of the following operations are performed in its body, controlling expression or (in the case of a for statement) its expression-3: – input/output operations – accessing a volatile object – synchronization or atomic operations."
It can, for example, simply optimize it away, assuming non-productive infinite loops are stupid and not reflective of what the code will actually do.
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CPU temp will be my break statement.
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Very much needed for embedded systems, but I’m more of a for (;;) guy myself!
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Always check for infinite cat girl errors.
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It's saddening to me how many times I've actually come across this in production.
Just because the code works doesn't mean it should ship.
You can have a non-infinite loop without a break statement, you just need a return statement in it. Also for(;;) is much faster to write than while(true).
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Imagine seriously using break... when I was young we had a break, it's called SIGKILL. And we liked it this way!
A billion years ago, I worked for a place that was using Cold Fusion.
There was this one project that had a loop with a break condition, but the devs kept accidentally putting errors in the break logic. The project was pretty processor intensive. I got calls 5-6 times a day to reset the CF server because stopping the HTML page wouldn't do #$%^
Can you guys please just add a second break module so you can just load another page and cause the project to abort? hell make it dump a file in /tmp, whatever....
Sometimes break is undesirable. But if you want an infinite loop, please please please include a sleep. Not doing this is why my CPU stays at 100%.
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