for <==> while (an exception)

[Ron Natalie <ron>]

> Here's another ...
> An infinite "for" loop is given by "for (;;) statement".  The equivalent
> "while" expression is, logically, "while () statement".  As this fails to
> compile, one has to resort to "while (1) statement"; which is less efficient
> in most cases as code is generated to test if "1" equals "0".

MYTH! MYTH! (yeth thailor) most of the popular compilers will evaluate
constant expressions and not test them explicitly.  The 4.2 compiler
even knows enough to tell me that if I don't have an exit from the while(1)
loop, that the further statements are not reached.  It, in fact, generates
the same code for either of the infinite loop cases.

-Ron