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to: HANS LUNSING
from: MARCEL VELDHUIZEN
date: 1996-12-14 19:38:00
subject: Huge arrays

Hi Hans Lunsing, hope you are having a nice day
Monday, 9 December 1996 20:44:15, Hans Lunsing wrote to Frank Cox
          Subject: Huge arrays
 FC>> for x%=-32768 to 32767
 FC>> next
 HL> How do you mean, in both cases? The range of an integer variable is
 HL> -32768 to 32767 inclusive, so in the last example x% is in the right
 HL> range.
 Not exactly... PB increases the variable with 1 first and then checks
 if it's time to leave the loop... That's why it will generate an overflow..
 HL> loops back to where it began. It starts all over again with x% = -32768.
 Jep, with error checking off, that is the case..
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