On Mon, 24 February 2003 23:21:44 +0100, Jörn Engel wrote:
>
> COUNT is constant and COUNT < INT_MAX. gcc can cast the constant bound
> to the variable's type to fix this problem.
Ok, Adrians example proved this approach stupid. But the one below
remains useful and catches one example, but not the other.
> Or, gcc can see that i starts with 0, it's value monotonously
> increases and will never wrap around due to COUNT < INT_MAX. Not a
> cheap test, but still possible.
Jörn
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