what does "for( ; ; )" mean in C program

[bobby]

hello group,
what does for( ; ; ) mean in C program

Thanks

[Walter Roberson]

In article <25**********************************@j20g2000hsi. googlegroups.com>,
bobby <bs*****@gmail.comwrote:

>what does for( ; ; ) mean in C program

This is a loop.

Do no initializations.

Do not test any condition to see whether you should continue.

Do not do anything after the end of a loop before the beginning
of the next loop through.
In summary: for(;;) is another way of writing while (1)
which is an infinite loop (unless broken out of somewhere
in the middle.)
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[bobby]

On Feb 1, 3:52 pm, [e-mail] (Walter Roberson)
wrote:

In article <[e-mail]>,

bobby <[e-mail]:

what does for( ; ; ) mean in C program

This is a loop.

Do no initializations.

Do not test any condition to see whether you should continue.

Do not do anything after the end of a loop before the beginning
of the next loop through.

In summary: for(;;) is another way of writing while (1)
which is an infinite loop (unless broken out of somewhere
in the middle.)
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Thank a lot

[Martin Ambuhl]

bobby wrote:

hello group,
what does for( ; ; ) mean in C program

while (1)

[Kenny McCormack]

In article <60*************@mid.individual.net>,
Martin Ambuhl <ma*****@earthlink.netwrote:

>bobby wrote:

>hello group,
what does for( ; ; ) mean in C program

while (1)

I always thought it meant:

while(27)

I guess it depends on what part of town you're from.

[sid]

On Feb 2, 1:48*am, bobby <[e-mail]:

hello group,
what does for( ; ; ) mean in C program

Thanks

It also means for(;1;);
A 'while()' loop is equivalent to 'for(;;)'

[Ben Pfaff]

sid <ki***********@gmail.comwrites:

A 'while()' loop is equivalent to 'for(;;)'

while() is not valid syntax. I think you mean that a while(1)
loop is equivalent to for(;;).
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Ben Pfaff:

sid <ki***********@gmail.comwrites:

>A 'while()' loop is equivalent to 'for(;;)'

while() is not valid syntax. I think you mean that a while(1)
loop is equivalent to for(;;).

But the extra-paranoid don't use it coz they don't want 1 to be evaluted
upon every iteration ;-)

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[Michal Nazarewicz]

Harald van Dijk <tr*****@gmail.comwrites:

Some people avoid using while(1) because they have to deal with broken
tools that give warnings for while(1) that they don't give for for(;;).

for(;;) is also one character shorter then while(1). :P

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Harald van Dijk <tr*****@gmail.comwrites:

>Some people avoid using while(1) because they have to deal with broken
tools that give warnings for while(1) that they don't give for for(;;).

for(;;) is also one character shorter then while(1). :P

:^)

[yeti]

On Feb 2, 2:43 am, [e-mail] (Kenny McCormack)
wrote:

In article <[e-mail]>,
Martin Ambuhl <[e-mail]:

bobby wrote:

hello group,
what does for( ; ; ) mean in C program

while (1)

I always thought it meant:

while(27)

I guess it depends on what part of town you're from.

nah .. its actually while(42) :P

[runner]

"bobby" <bs*****@gmail.comha scritto nel messaggio
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hello group,
what does for( ; ; ) mean in C program

Thanks

#define ever (;;)

for ever

[Keith Thompson]

"runner" <emb@ddedwrites:

"bobby" <bs*****@gmail.comha scritto nel messaggio
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>hello group,
what does for( ; ; ) mean in C program

#define ever (;;)

for ever

If your goal is to be cute, by all means go ahead and use that macro.

If your goal is to write understandable and maintainable C, please
don't.

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"runner" <emb@ddedwrites:

>"bobby" <bs*****@gmail.comha scritto nel messaggio
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>>hello group,
what does for( ; ; ) mean in C program

>#define ever (;;)

for ever

>
If your goal is to be cute, by all means go ahead and use that macro.

If your goal is to write understandable and maintainable C, please
don't.

I'm being cute, i don't need that macro. But it does its job in explaining
what happens when no expression is provided.

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