From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me
X-Spam-Level: 
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00
	autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
Path: 
 border1.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!border4.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!news2.euro.net!newsfeed.freenet.ag!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!npeer.de.kpn-eurorings.net!npeer-ng0.de.kpn-eurorings.net!feed.news.schlund.de!schlund.de!news.online.de!not-for-mail
From: Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs@altum.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Simple loop with a strange output
Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 22:41:46 +0200
Organization: Privat
Message-ID: <knluua$g3d$1@online.de>
References: <7cd707ce-ebc5-4df1-9ec3-4f99ce87a07d@googlegroups.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: pd9ffa50a.dip0.t-ipconnect.de
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit
X-Trace: online.de 1369341707 16493 217.255.165.10 (23 May 2013 20:41:47 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: abuse@einsundeins.com
NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 20:41:47 +0000 (UTC)
User-Agent: KNode/4.10.2
X-Original-Bytes: 2117
Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:181735
Date: 2013-05-23T22:41:46+02:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

Luca Cappelletti wrote:

> if you change the code using only the simple "loop - end loop" or change
> the number into the while from 1009999999 to 1099999999
> 
> my output will be an infinite sequence of zero
> 
> $./hello
> 0
> 0
> 0
> 0
> ...
> 0
> ...

Did you leave something out in your output? I get:

% ./hello
start counting

          1
          2
          4
          8
         16
         32
         64
        128
        256
        512
       1024
       2048
       4096
       8192
      16384
      32768
      65536
     131072
     262144
     524288
    1048576
    2097152
    4194304
    8388608
   16777216
   33554432
   67108864
  134217728
  268435456
  536870912
 1073741824
-2147483648
          0
          0
          0
          0
          0

And this is what I would expect, taking into account Adams and Simons 
replies.

Bye...

	Dirk
-- 
Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs@altum.de>
Tel: +49 (0)2471 209385 | Mobil: +49 (0)176 34473913
GPG Public Key C2E467BB | Jabber: dirk.heinrichs@altum.de