#define forever for(;;)

[Jeffrey T. Hutzelman]

andrew at motto.UUCP (Andrew Walduck) writes:

>>#define ever (;;)
>>#define nothing ;
>>
>>Then you get
>>
>>for ever
>>	{
>>	...
>>	}
> Is this really defined to loop forever?? Does ANSI guarantee this
> behaviour? 
> Just to be safe I'd define ever like:
> #define ever(;1;)
> Just to make the behaviour predictable.
A couple things.  As has been pointed out to me (and I kind of knew
already), the #define ever is not actually very useful.

However, I use for(;;) all the time in place of while(1) with no
problem.  And yes, I believe that it is defined that the loop will loop
forever if the condition is not given.  Some one back me up on this, or
tell me I;m wrong.
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