[LLVMdev] Is infinite empty loop dead code?

[陳韋任 (Wei-Ren Chen)]

On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 11:23:02PM -0800, Shuxin Yang wrote:
> Hi, All:
> 
>      Is it legal to delete empty infinite loop like this : "while(1) {}"?
> It is interesting that both llvm and gcc keep the loop, however Open64 
> delete it.

  I think it's illegal to delete such infinite loop, perhapes you should
file a bug report to open64. That's my 2 cents.
 
Regards,
chenwj

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