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Re: the loop control

From blp@cs.stanford.edu (Ben Pfaff)
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: the loop control
Date 2011-10-31 12:38 -0700
Message-ID <87r51teytw.fsf@blp.benpfaff.org> (permalink)
References <j8hrok$3cq$1@reader1.panix.com> <op.v35g1ubrlahckh@cantereyd> <j8miq2$kh4$1@reader1.panix.com> <20111031152454.835@kylheku.com>

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Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> writes:

> On 2011-10-31, Joe keane <jgk@panix.com> wrote:
>> Anyway readability is key; to me code like
>>
>>     ct = len;
>>     fop = fob;
>>     while (--ct >= 0)
>>     {
>> 	...(fop)
>> 	fop++;
>>     }
>>
>> is so idiomatic that it's easiest.
>
> As pointed out upthread, it's an infinite loop should ct ever happen
> to be unsigned. Learning disability?

It seems likely to me that the compiler would warn that the loop
condition cannot ever be true.
-- 
char a[]="\n .CJacehknorstu";int putchar(int);int main(void){unsigned long b[]
={0x67dffdff,0x9aa9aa6a,0xa77ffda9,0x7da6aa6a,0xa67f6aaa,0xaa9aa9f6,0x11f6},*p
=b,i=24;for(;p+=!*p;*p/=4)switch(0[p]&3)case 0:{return 0;for(p--;i--;i--)case+
2:{i++;if(i)break;else default:continue;if(0)case 1:putchar(a[i&15]);break;}}}

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the loop control jgk@panix.com (Joe keane) - 2011-10-29 21:38 +0000
  Re: the loop control Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-10-30 10:48 +1300
  Re: the loop control Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2011-10-29 22:10 +0000
    Re: the loop control jgk@panix.com (Joe keane) - 2011-10-31 15:21 +0000
      Re: the loop control James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-10-31 11:35 -0400
        Re: the loop control jgharston <jgh@arcade.demon.co.uk> - 2011-10-31 10:27 -0700
          Re: the loop control Seebs <usenet-nospam@seebs.net> - 2011-10-31 18:36 +0000
          Re: the loop control Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2011-10-31 13:49 -0500
          Re: the loop control Sjouke Burry <s@b> - 2011-10-31 18:49 +0000
          Re: the loop control James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-10-31 15:07 -0400
          Re: the loop control Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-10-31 13:56 -0700
      Re: the loop control Seebs <usenet-nospam@seebs.net> - 2011-10-31 17:18 +0000
        Re: the loop control Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-01 04:35 -0700
          Re: the loop control Seebs <usenet-nospam@seebs.net> - 2011-11-01 21:44 +0000
            Re: the loop control Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-02 01:16 -0700
      Re: the loop control Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2011-10-31 19:23 +0000
        Re: the loop control jgk@panix.com (Joe keane) - 2011-11-02 04:47 +0000
      Re: the loop control Phil Carmody <thefatphil_demunged@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-10-31 23:07 +0200
        Re: the loop control Ike Naar <ike@sverige.freeshell.org> - 2011-11-01 00:11 +0000
          Re: the loop control James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-10-31 22:01 -0400
            Re: the loop control Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2011-11-01 02:51 +0000
              Re: the loop control James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-11-01 07:23 -0400
            Re: the loop control Ike Naar <ike@iceland.freeshell.org> - 2011-11-01 09:51 +0000
              Re: the loop control pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2011-11-01 05:34 -0500
              Re: the loop control James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-11-01 07:30 -0400
              Re: the loop control James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-11-01 07:35 -0400
            Re: the loop control Hans Vlems <hvlems@freenet.de> - 2011-11-11 00:38 -0800
        Re: the loop control jgk@panix.com (Joe keane) - 2011-11-02 03:36 +0000
          Re: the loop control Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-02 17:09 +1300
            Re: the loop control Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-11-02 03:56 -0700
      Re: the loop control Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2011-10-31 21:38 +0000
  Re: the loop control Acid Washed China Blue Jeans <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2011-10-29 19:31 -0700
  Re: the loop control Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2011-10-29 23:11 -0600
  Re: the loop control "Philip Lantz" <prl@canterey.us> - 2011-10-29 22:47 -0700
    Re: the loop control jgk@panix.com (Joe keane) - 2011-10-31 16:36 +0000
      Re: the loop control Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2011-10-31 19:30 +0000
        Re: the loop control blp@cs.stanford.edu (Ben Pfaff) - 2011-10-31 12:38 -0700
          Re: the loop control James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-10-31 15:51 -0400
            Re: the loop control blp@cs.stanford.edu (Ben Pfaff) - 2011-10-31 13:06 -0700
            Re: the loop control Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-10-31 14:17 -0700
              Re: the loop control Seebs <usenet-nospam@seebs.net> - 2011-11-01 21:44 +0000
            Re: the loop control Phil Carmody <thefatphil_demunged@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-10-31 23:30 +0200
        Re: the loop control jgk@panix.com (Joe keane) - 2011-11-03 21:29 +0000
          Re: the loop control James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-11-03 18:00 -0400
          Re: the loop control Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2011-11-04 00:43 +0000
            Re: the loop control jgk@panix.com (Joe keane) - 2011-11-11 02:24 +0000
      Re: the loop control Phil Carmody <thefatphil_demunged@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-10-31 23:20 +0200
      Re: the loop control pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2011-10-31 18:01 -0500
        Re: the loop control Phil Carmody <thefatphil_demunged@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-11-02 01:20 +0200
  Re: the loop control 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2011-11-02 01:25 -0700

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