maxime wrote:
> Hi,
>
> in the coreutils source of cat
[snip]
> ... many understandable lines ...
> while (++argind < argc);
> ... some lines...
>
> coreutil 7.2
> file cat.c
> line 776
>
> I realy don't understand why U use a while loop in this case...
It is the end of a do...while loop. The loop executes at least once before the
condition is evaluated. It is of the form:
do
{
...
}
while(condition);
You are looking at the while(condition); as a single while loop, which it is
not.
Regards
-Steve
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