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False Negative: INFINITE_EXECUTION_TIME missing for empty-increment for loop #2005

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Description
Infer fails to report an INFINITE_EXECUTION_TIME error when a for loop has an empty increment expression and the loop variable is never modified, resulting in an obvious infinite loop.

public class TestInfiniteLoop {
    static void bugMissed() {
        int j;
        for (j = 0; j <= 1;) {}  // <- should report INFINITE_EXECUTION_TIME (FN)
    }
}

Expected behavior
INFINITE_EXECUTION_TIME should be reported for void TestInfiniteLoop.bugMissed(), since the function contains a non-terminating loop whose execution cost is ∞.

Actual behavior
The infinite loop is silently ignored.

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