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		sp332 on Aug 8, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Beauty of Bresenham's Algorithm You could just say while(true). And I'm not sure that the test for true is implicit, since that is what while() explicitly does.

zanny on Aug 8, 2012 [–]

C doesn't have true / false as language constants, only as override-able macros.

The good thing is modern compilers can evaluate a loop and if the break condition is constant it can just do an infinite loop without checking.

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