for(;;) vs. while(1) is a draw

Doug Gwyn gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL
Sat May 26 17:03:13 AEST 1990


In article <5906 at buengc.BU.EDU> bph at buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
-In article <1990May24.231054.22349 at mozart.amd.com> tim at amd.com (Tim Olson) writes:
->	"Any or all of the expressions may be dropped.  A missing
->	expression-2 makes the implied while clause equivalent to
->	while(1); ..."
-Oops.  My bad.  So whose compiler was it that did this?

Everybody's!  You don't seem to understand the difference between a
language specification and code generation.



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