a style question

[Hascall John Paul]

In article <18370 at haddock.ima.isc.com>, karl at haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
writes:
 
> Note that with either Henry's example or mine you will lose big if x is an
> unsigned integer (and if you don't use lint to catch it).  I usually use
> 	for (x = 100; x != 0; --x)
> on unsigned countdown loops where the index doesn't matter (i.e. just "do 100
> times"); if you actually need the interval [0,100),
> 	for (x = 100; x-- != 0;)
> does the job (though probably less efficiently).

     I suppose this is so hideous that I shall be cursed forever for it...  ;-)

        unsigned int   x;

        for (x = 100; (int)--x > 0; )

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