RFR: 8261300: jpackage: rewrite while(0)/while(false) to proper blocks

Andy Herrick herrick at openjdk.java.net
Mon Feb 8 14:34:44 UTC 2021


On Mon, 8 Feb 2021 09:17:46 GMT, Aleksey Shipilev <shade at openjdk.org> wrote:

> After JDK-8254702, SonarCloud instance complains about blocks like these: "Change this loop body so that it can be executed more than once."
> 
>     int initJvmlLauncherData(JvmlLauncherData* ptr) const {
>         // Store path to JLI library just behind JvmlLauncherData header.
>         char* curPtr = reinterpret_cast<char*>(ptr + 1);
>         do {
>             const size_t count = sizeof(char)
>                     * (jliLibPath.size() + 1 /* trailing zero */);
>             if (ptr) {
>                 std::memcpy(curPtr, jliLibPath.c_str(), count);
>                 ptr->jliLibPath = curPtr;
>             }
>             curPtr += count;
>         } while (false); // <---- here
> 
> There is no sense in having `while(false)` here, where the syntactic `{}` block would do. There are also other uses in the jpackage code that employ `while(0)` for this, and then they also trigger the inspection about the implicit conversion of zero int to boolean.
> 
> Additional testing:
>  - [x] Linux x86_64 (Ubuntu) tools/jpackage

There are also instances of "while(0)" (without space) in app.cpp, tstrings.cpp. and ErrorHandling.h

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/2454


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