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From: decot@hpisod2.HP.COM (Dave Decot)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Another way (How not to write a loop)
Message-ID: <2550046@hpisod2.HP.COM>
Date: 17 Feb 88 07:51:28 GMT
References: <1988Feb11.200149.25172@sq.uucp>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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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.

We have a misunderstanding of the word "should", apparently.

Dave Decot
hpda!decot