[Gambas-devel] gb3: recent revision regarding FOR...NEXT loops and counter variables

[Benoît Minisini]

> Holy shit something is seriously wrong with a recent commit. All my
> loops are going infinitely by wrapping around to negative values. Guess
> no one's using the most recent build or they'd have noticed. Try
> something like this in a module with no other code:
> 
> ' Gambas module file
> 
> Public Sub Main()
> 
>    Dim Counter As Short
> 
>    For Counter = 0 To 32767
>      Print Counter
>    Next
> 
> End

There was a bug fix in loop management.

And your loop must loop indefinitely, because a short value wraps to -32768 
after 32767, so the limit is never passed.

The solution is not using a Short as loop variable.

Regards,

-- 
Benoît Minisini