Re: [PATCH MISC 1/1] Make gcc warning about empty if body go away.

> Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> writes:
> 
> > diff --git a/builtin-diff.c b/builtin-diff.c
> > index f77352b..80392a8 100644
> > --- a/builtin-diff.c
> > +++ b/builtin-diff.c
> > @@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ static void refresh_index_quietly(void)
> >  		if (write_cache(fd, active_cache, active_nr) ||
> >  		    close(fd) ||
> >  		    commit_locked_index(lock_file))
> > -			; /*
> > +			(void)0; /*
> >  			   * silently ignore it -- we haven't mucked
> >  			   * with the real index.
> >  			   */
> 
> Wouldn't this be much easier to read, by the way?
> 
> The point is that if we touched the active_cache, we try to
> write it out and make it the index file for later users to use
> by calling "commit", but we do not really care about the failure
> from this sequence because it is done purely as an optimization.
> 
> The original code called three functions primarily for their
> side effects, which is admittedly a bad style.