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Article #1312Re: for(;;) vs. while(1) is a draw
From: Blair P. Houghton
Date: Tue, 29 May 1990 00:09
Date: Tue, 29 May 1990 00:09
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In article <13001@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes: >In article <5906@buengc.BU.EDU> bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton) writes: >-In article <1990May24.231054.22349@mozart.amd.com> tim@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. Doug, doug, doug. Yes, I do. Now if you wouldn't mind getting off your desk and putting down the lamp and looking at what my original article said, you'd see why you're making an utter ass of yourself, and splashing excrement all over this group doing it. --Blair "Sheesh."
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!bu.edu!buengc!bph From: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: for(;;) vs. while(1) is a draw Message-ID: <5913@buengc.BU.EDU> Date: 29 May 90 00:09:14 GMT References: <5897@buengc.BU.EDU> <1990May24.231054.22349@mozart.amd.com> <5906@buengc.BU.EDU> <13001@smoke.BRL.MIL> Reply-To: bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton) Followup-To: comp.std.c Organization: Boston Univ. Col. of Eng. Lines: 18