lint: empty if statement

src/common.cpp

@@ -287,11 +287,10 @@ std::string wcs2string(const wcstring &input) {
     for (size_t i = 0; i < input.size(); i++) {
         wchar_t wc = input[i];
         if (wc == INTERNAL_SEPARATOR) {
-            // Do nothing.
+            ;  // do nothing
         } else if (wc >= ENCODE_DIRECT_BASE && wc < ENCODE_DIRECT_BASE + 256) {
             result.push_back(wc - ENCODE_DIRECT_BASE);
-        } else if (MB_CUR_MAX == 1)  // single-byte locale (C/POSIX/ISO-8859)
-        {
+        } else if (MB_CUR_MAX == 1) {  // single-byte locale (C/POSIX/ISO-8859)
             // If `wc` contains a wide character we emit a question-mark.
             if (wc & ~0xFF) {
                 wc = '?';
@@ -328,7 +327,7 @@ static char *wcs2str_internal(const wchar_t *in, char *out) {
 
     while (in[in_pos]) {
         if (in[in_pos] == INTERNAL_SEPARATOR) {
-            // Do nothing.
+            ;  // do nothing
         } else if (in[in_pos] >= ENCODE_DIRECT_BASE && in[in_pos] < ENCODE_DIRECT_BASE + 256) {
             out[out_pos++] = in[in_pos] - ENCODE_DIRECT_BASE;
         } else if (MB_CUR_MAX == 1)  // single-byte locale (C/POSIX/ISO-8859)

src/complete.cpp

@@ -679,11 +679,11 @@ void completer_t::complete_cmd(const wcstring &str_cmd, bool use_function, bool
             }
     }
 
-    // WTF? This seems to be a noop.
-    if (use_implicit_cd &&
-        !expand_string(str_cmd, &this->completions,
-                       EXPAND_FOR_COMPLETIONS | DIRECTORIES_ONLY | this->expand_flags(), NULL)) {
-        // Not valid as implicit cd.
+    if (use_implicit_cd) {
+        // We don't really care if this succeeds or fails. If it succeeds this->completions will be
+        // updated with choices for the user.
+        (void)expand_string(str_cmd, &this->completions,
+                            EXPAND_FOR_COMPLETIONS | DIRECTORIES_ONLY | this->expand_flags(), NULL);
     }
 
     if (str_cmd.find(L'/') == wcstring::npos && str_cmd.at(0) != L'~') {

src/env_universal_common.cpp

@@ -979,11 +979,8 @@ wcstring get_machine_identifier() {
         for (size_t i = 0; i < MAC_ADDRESS_MAX_LEN; i++) {
             append_format(result, L"%02x", mac_addr[i]);
         }
-    } else if (get_hostname_identifier(&result)) {
-        // Hooray
-    } else {
-        // Fallback
-        result.assign(L"nohost");
+    } else if (!get_hostname_identifier(&result)) {
+        result.assign(L"nohost");  // fallback to a dummy value
     }
     return result;
 }

src/expand.cpp

@@ -1386,7 +1386,7 @@ static expand_error_t expand_stage_wildcards(const wcstring &input, std::vector<
     const bool has_wildcard = wildcard_has(path_to_expand, true /* internal, i.e. ANY_CHAR */);
 
     if (has_wildcard && (flags & EXECUTABLES_ONLY)) {
-        // Don't do wildcard expansion for executables. See #785. Make them expand to nothing here.
+        ;  // don't do wildcard expansion for executables, see issue #785
     } else if (((flags & EXPAND_FOR_COMPLETIONS) && (!(flags & EXPAND_SKIP_WILDCARDS))) ||
                has_wildcard) {
         // We either have a wildcard, or we don't have a wildcard but we're doing completion

src/parse_tree.cpp

@@ -988,7 +988,7 @@ bool parse_ll_t::top_node_handle_terminal_types(parse_token_t token) {
         } else if (stack_top.keyword == parse_keyword_end &&
                    token.type == parse_token_type_terminate &&
                    this->report_error_for_unclosed_block()) {
-            // Handled by report_error_for_unclosed_block.
+            ;  // handled by report_error_for_unclosed_block
         } else {
             const wcstring expected = stack_top.user_presentable_description();
             this->parse_error_unexpected_token(expected.c_str(), token);

src/proc.cpp

@@ -336,10 +336,13 @@ static void handle_child_status(pid_t pid, int status) {
         }
     }
 
+#if 0
+    // TODO: decide whether to eliminate this block or have it emit a warning message.
     if (!found_proc) {
         // A child we lost track of? There have been bugs in both subshell handling and in builtin
         // handling that have caused this previously...
     }
+#endif
     return;
 }
 

src/reader.cpp

@@ -2205,7 +2205,7 @@ static void reader_super_highlight_me_plenty(int match_highlight_pos_adjust, boo
     const wcstring &cmd = el->text, &suggest = data->autosuggestion;
     if (can_autosuggest() && !suggest.empty() &&
         string_prefixes_string_case_insensitive(cmd, suggest)) {
-        // The autosuggestion is still reasonable, so do nothing.
+        ;  // the autosuggestion is still reasonable, so do nothing
     } else {
         update_autosuggestion();
     }

src/wildcard.cpp

@@ -385,9 +385,7 @@ static bool wildcard_test_flags_then_complete(const wcstring &filepath, const wc
     int stat_res = -1;
     int stat_errno = 0;
     int lstat_res = lwstat(filepath, &lstat_buf);
-    if (lstat_res < 0) {
-        // lstat failed.
-    } else {
+    if (lstat_res >= 0) {
         if (S_ISLNK(lstat_buf.st_mode)) {
             stat_res = wstat(filepath, &stat_buf);