Re: [Gm2] Bug Report: counting down woes

[john o goyo]

Greetings:

Gaius Mulley wrote (in part):
> john o goyo <address@hidden> writes:
>
>
> > Greetings:
> >
> > I seem to be having problems counting downwards.
> > The loop in the following code does not stop at
> > zero but continues forever.
>
>
> Hi John,
>
> I believe I've fixed this now, here is the ChangeLog:
>
>  * fixed bug reported by john o goyo <address@hidden>.
>    (testsuite/gm2/pim/run/pass/Countdown.mod)
>  * for loops are now implemented as per ISO description.
>    GNU Modula-2 now calculates the last iteration value
>    before the start of a loop. It then initializes the
>    iteration value and works towards the final value,
>    rather than testing to see whether the iteration value
>    exceeds or preceeds the limit value (which failed when using
>    a CARDINAL iterator and stopping at 0).
>  * added a number of run tests to exercise these changes.
>
> The cvs changes are being uploaded, should be ready in an hours time..
> Thanks for the report, if you have time please test again,

Tested and all seems well.

Thank you.
john