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title="NEW - Poor error message from control flow at global scope"
href="https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35114">35114</a>
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>Poor error message from control flow at global scope
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<th>Product</th>
<td>clang
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<th>Version</th>
<td>trunk
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>PC
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<th>OS</th>
<td>Windows NT
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<th>Status</th>
<td>NEW
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>enhancement
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<th>Priority</th>
<td>P
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<th>Component</th>
<td>-New Bugs
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<th>Assignee</th>
<td>unassignedclangbugs@nondot.org
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>david@doublewise.net
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<td>llvm-bugs@lists.llvm.org
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<pre>If you compile the following code:
while(true) {}
You get the not especially helpful error message:
<source>:1:1: error: expected unqualified-id
while(true) {}
^
1 error generated.
This came up for me in the context of calling a macro that wrapped a few
statements in a `do { ... } while(false);` construct, and I spend a fair amount
of time looking for a missing semicolon somewhere before I finally found the
problem. I would have preferred to get a message along the lines of "while
loops not allowed outside of functions" or something else that directly says
the problem from the user's perspective.</pre>
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