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Subject: Re: while(1) Is this poor style? 
From: cdfoster@ix.netcom.com (Cameron Foster)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c

On 26 Jul 1997 20:23:31 +0100, john@polo.demon.co.uk (John Winters) wrote:

>>FWIW, my compiler barfs on this, but is quite happy with:
>>for(;;) {

>It isn't allowed to barf; it is allowed to whinge.  (See relevant
>ISO standards for definitions of "barf" and "whinge".)

My compiler isn't broken, after all. When I turn on the
ISO 9x22764.2A subsection 332x4 paragraph 227.3
compliant switch, it does indeed only whinge. The side effect is that
it doesn't pronounce "char" correctly.