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From: Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: unsigned int
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Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2016 18:51:27 +0100
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ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:

> - what did I miss? (Especially with regard to common errors
>   commited when using »unsigned«.)

That naturally expressed reverse-iteration idioms like:

for(x = strlen(s);x >= 0; --x) {
  if(s[x] == '@') return x;
}
return NOT_FOUND;

break when x is unsigned.