Empty for loop

I just came across a for(;;) while reading through MSDN on winsock.

What is the purpose of an empty for(;;) loop? Can not the exact same thing be accomplished with a while loop? Seems like tomayto-tomahto to me. If there is some significant purpose though, I'd much like to know.

>>22
Look, fuck you. The fact that you don't know how /prog/ works does not constitute a problem. Most of the actual programming discussion happens in the IRC channels we've spawned and that's fine. In the mean time, the rest of us would like to make sure our shibboleths are maintained so we can continue to have productive discussion in said channels.