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From: pardo@uw-june.UUCP (David Keppel)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: for(i..) foo(&i) (Was: a couple quickies)
Message-ID: <3936@uw-june.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jan 88 22:33:10 GMT
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Reply-To: pardo@uw-june.UUCP (David Keppel)
Organization: U of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle
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>>	for (i=0; i==100; i++) foo(&i);

Did you mean
	for (i=0; i<100; i++) foo(&i);
by any chance?  The first form checks i==100 before calling foo(&i);
if the compiler was smart enough to optimize away the initial check,
it would optimize away the whole loop.

	;-D on  (Correct me if I'm wrong.  Wrong me if I'm correct)  Pardo