[LC++]int versus unsigned int

[Carlo Wood]

On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 06:55:32PM -0500, Robert Wuest wrote:
> This one just got me the other day:
> 
> 	unsigned int cnt;
> 	.
> 	.
> 	.
> 	for( cnt=13; cnt>0; cnt-- )
> 		blah_blah_blah;
> 
> An infinite loop!

Seems to work fine to me.  It will terminate on cnt == 0.

By the way, when programming C++, you should do

  for(int cnt = 13; cnt > 0; --cnt)

(Declare the counter inside the loop).

-- 
Carlo Wood <carlo at alinoe.com>