Re: failure due to compiler?

My favourite compiler error was the one that allowed a Pascal FOR loop to run
indefinitely.


I was initialising a character translation table with


            for c := chr( 0 ) to chr( 255 ) do ...


and the compiler was clever enough to use a single-byte counter (this was
on a PDP-11). The successor of 255 was, of course, 0, so the loop termination
test in the object code never fired.


This was OMSI Pascal, otherwise an excellent compiler. Happened in the early
eighties.


-- Feliks
[This thread is getting kind of long, I'm going to close it down unless
something really exotic shows up. -John]


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