What do you mean? You will get a compiler error in any case where there is a break or continue in an outermost while block. There's nothing odd or uncommon abou

What do you mean? You will get a compiler error in any case where there is a break or continue in an outermost while block. There's nothing odd or uncommon about that. Here's something closer to a real program: int main(void) { while (1) { char c = getchar(); if (c == 'q') break; process(c); } return 0; }