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"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:

> There's nothing in the definition of either task that would cause it
> to exit, regardless of what the barrier does, so the only result could
> possibly be to run more-or-less forever. (As noted by someone else,
> the loops run too slowly for overflow to happen on the counter, and
> there is no exit.)

Yes, but ...

> "Simon Wright" <simon@pushface.org> wrote in message 
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>> Gilbert Gosseyn <hnptz@yahoo.de> writes:
>>
>>> although it should stop when reaching an internal count number
>>
>> What internal count number is that?

... my (somewhat over-Socratic) point was, "you (OP) talk about an
'internal count number' but your code has no such thing, I think you may
be showing us a different version of your code from that which actually
has the problem".