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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: How not to write a loop
Message-ID: <2115@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 14 Feb 88 16:13:35 GMT
References: <560@naucse.UUCP> <1988Feb11.200149.25172@sq.uucp>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <1988Feb11.200149.25172@sq.uucp> msb@sq.UUCP (Mark Brader) writes:
>	Floating point numbers should never be used for counting.

Never say never.  (Well, hardly ever say never.)  At least one
widely-used implementation of Snobol4 successfully uses a floating
point register to count the number of statements executed, relying on
floating point overflow being detected by hardware so that the program
may be aborted when the user-specified statement count limit is
reached.
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