Careful "for" Loops

[Roy Johnson]

In article <3942.27edea2f at iccgcc.decnet.ab.com> browns at iccgcc.decnet.ab.com (Stan Brown) writes:
> I use
>	   for (p=a; p<a; p++)
> Then if my loop also increments p, the loop still terminates.

I would guess it would terminate before it ever went into the loop,
so it doesn't matter what the loop does.  8^)

> (Yes, I know my loop _shouldn't_ increment p, but sometimes I
> make coding errors.)

Oh.  Then you meant for (p=0; p<a; p++) ??
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