How do I make an infinite empty loop that won't be optimized away?

Question

The C11 standard appears to imply that iteration statements with constant controlling expressions should not be optimized out. I\'m taking my advice from this answer, which

Answer 1

It seems that this is a bug in the Clang compiler. If there isn't any compulsion on the die() function to be a static function, do away with static and make it inline:

#include 

inline void die(void) {
    while(1)
        ;
}

int main(void) {
    printf("begin\n");
    die();
    printf("unreachable\n");
}

It's working as expected when compiled with the Clang compiler and is portable as well.

Compiler Explorer (godbolt.org) - clang 9.0.0 -O3 -std=c11 -pedantic-errors

main:                                   # @main
        push    rax
        mov     edi, offset .Lstr
        call    puts
.LBB0_1:                                # =>This Inner Loop Header: Depth=1
        jmp     .LBB0_1
.Lstr:
        .asciz  "begin"