While Loop - Equivalent Constructs

Equivalent Constructs

while (condition) { statements; }

is equivalent to

if (condition) { do { statements; } while (condition); }

or

while (true) { if (!condition) break; statements; }

or

goto TEST; LOOPSTART: statements; TEST: if (condition) goto LOOPSTART;

or

TEST: if (!condition) goto LOOPEND; statements goto TEST; LOOPEND:

Also, in C and its descendants, a while loop is a for loop with no initialization or counting expressions, i.e.,

for ( ; condition; ) { statements; }

}

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