Function CheckEmptyBlockBody

scripts/cpp_lint.py:3247–3279

Look for empty loop/conditional body with only a single semicolon. Args: filename: The name of the current file. clean_lines: A CleansedLines instance containing the file. linenum: The number of the line to check. error: The function to call with any errors found.

(filename, clean_lines, linenum, error)

def CheckEmptyBlockBody(filename, clean_lines, linenum, error):
  """Look for empty loop/conditional body with only a single semicolon.

  Args:
    filename: The name of the current file.
    clean_lines: A CleansedLines instance containing the file.
    linenum: The number of the line to check.
    error: The function to call with any errors found.
  """

  # Search for loop keywords at the beginning of the line.  Because only
  # whitespaces are allowed before the keywords, this will also ignore most
  # do-while-loops, since those lines should start with closing brace.
  #
  # We also check "if" blocks here, since an empty conditional block
  # is likely an error.
  line = clean_lines.elided[linenum]
  matched = Match(r'\s*(for|while|if)\s*\(', line)
  if matched:
    # Find the end of the conditional expression
    (end_line, end_linenum, end_pos) = CloseExpression(
        clean_lines, linenum, line.find('('))

    # Output warning if what follows the condition expression is a semicolon.
    # No warning for all other cases, including whitespace or newline, since we
    # have a separate check for semicolons preceded by whitespace.
    if end_pos >= 0 and Match(r';', end_line[end_pos:]):
      if matched.group(1) == 'if':
        error(filename, end_linenum, 'whitespace/empty_conditional_body', 5,
              'Empty conditional bodies should use {}')
      else:
        error(filename, end_linenum, 'whitespace/empty_loop_body', 5,
              'Empty loop bodies should use {} or continue')


def CheckCheck(filename, clean_lines, linenum, error):