This would depend on the implementation of the VBLANK.

I usually want to redraw the screen even if nothing changed.

Also, I'd add that apparently C does not have/no longer has this issue(at least by C11, see

http://port70.net/~nsz/c/c11/n1570.html#6.8.5p6). Where the loop condition of a for loop is a constant expression (empty conditions are included), the loop cannot be assumed to terminate. I can't see much of a reason for this to be different between the two languages.

On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 12:02 Jason McKesson via Std-Proposals <std-proposals@lists.isocpp.org> wrote:

Corrections to some code. I got my conditions backwards:

> //Spin to wait for VBlank routine
> waiting_for_vblank = 1;
> while(!waiting_for_vblank) {}

The condition should be `while(waiting_for_vblank) {}`.

Also:

> //Busy loop 2:
> waiting_for_vblank = 0;
> while(waiting_for_vblank) {}

The condition should be `while(!waiting_for_vblank) {}`.
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