On 4/20/10 7:44 PM, Brian Lavender wrote: > Thus, I am thinking that the compiler could catch this due to the > fact that i is unsigned. I wanted to print out the reverse of an > array.
The problem with this is two-fold. First, writing a loop that may never terminate isn't necessarily a bug -- consider any daemon process. Second, determining whether or not a loop terminates is, in general, undecidable. Therefore, it is fundamentally impossible to create a compiler that could make this determination for all possible programs. ... back to dreaming that computers knew what I wanted, rather than what I've instructed them to do... Matt _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
