On Thu, 2012-09-06 at 07:55 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > My solution to making 'break' work in the iterator is:
> >
> > for (bkt = 0, node = NULL; bkt < HASH_SIZE(name) && node == NULL; bkt++)
> > hlist_for_each_entry(obj, node, &name[bkt], member)
> >
>
> Looks reasonable. However, it would break (or rather, not break) on
> code like this:
>
> hash_for_each_entry(...) {
> if (...) {
> foo(node);
> node = NULL;
> break;
> }
> }
>
> Hiding the double loop still seems error-prone.
We've already had this conversation ;-) A guess a big comment is in
order:
/*
* NOTE! Although this is a double loop, 'break' still works because of
* the 'node == NULL' condition in the outer loop. On break of
* the inner loop, node will be !NULL, and the outer loop will
* exit as well.
*/
-- Steve
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