Infinite loops

[Chris Torek]

In article <577 at ur-helheim.UUCP> badri at ur-helheim.UUCP
(Badri Lokanathan) writes:
>There are several ways of creating infinite loops:

Namely, `while (1)' and `for (;;)'.  (There are others, but these
seem to be the nominal standard.)

>... is there any reason (other than personal preferance) why one
>would prefer to use any particular form?

Some compilers generate a `test the constant 1' for the former
sequence, and no test for the latter; but I imagine that by now
this is rather rare.

>I personally prefer the while(1) form since it seems to make better reading.

Oddly enough, I prefer the other form, but for the same reason.
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