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From: Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
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Subject: Re: for-loop mutates to an endless-loop
Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2020 14:39:34 +0000
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Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> writes:

>>      short int nIter;
>>      long lSum = 0;
>>      for ( nIter = -32768; nIter <= 32767; nIter++ )
>>          lSum += nIter;
>
> Use this:
>
>        short nIter = -32768;
>        long  lSum  = 0;
>        do
>            lSum +== nIter;

s/==/=/

>        while( nIter++ < 32767 );

This is not entirely portable (see my other post for why) but will work
on most implementations.

-- 
Ben.