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From: steve@groucho.ucar.edu (Steve Emmerson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: a style question
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Date: 1 Oct 90 19:40:23 GMT
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In <12683:Oct102:57:1590@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu 
(Dan Bernstein) writes:

>In article <8660@ncar.ucar.edu> steve@groucho.ucar.edu (Steve Emmerson) writes:
>> 	# define NUM_ELEMENTS	100
>> 	for (x = 0; x < NUM_ELEMENTS; x++) ...

>Hmmm. I'll automatically write x = NUM_ELEMENTS; while (x--) ... for
>this kind of loop. On many computers it'll run noticeably faster, and I
>can safely replace NUM_ELEMENTS by a function call.

If the loop-body doesn't care, then I don't either.  My point was the
use of a symbolic name rather than a hard-coded magic cookie (i.e.
NUM_ELEMENTS rather than "100").

Steve Emmerson        steve@unidata.ucar.edu        ...!ncar!unidata!steve