What is the difference between infinite while loops and for loops?

Question

I see the different conventions used in many books I had read, where you would create infinite loops with either loop structure such as:

while()
   foo();
fo         


        

Answer 1

Here is one small difference I saw with the VS2010 disassembly in debug mode. Not sure, if it is sufficient enough to count as a significant and universally true difference (across all compiler and with all optimizations).

So conceptually these loops are same, but at a processor level, with infinite message loops, the clock cycles for the additional/different instructions could be different and make some difference.

   while(1)
004113DE  mov         eax,1                       **// This is the difference**
004113E3  test        eax,eax                     **// This is the difference**
004113E5  je          main+2Eh (4113EEh)  
      f();
004113E7  call        f (4110DCh)  
004113EC  jmp         main+1Eh (4113DEh)          **// This is the difference**
   for(;;)
      f();
004113EE  call        f (4110DCh)  
004113F3  jmp         main+2Eh (4113EEh)          **// This is the difference**
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