Re: any way to limit the number of iterations of a loop?

From: <bonanos_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 06:13:34 GMT
Message-ID: <7b2pm8$3kj$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>

> I was just wondering if anyone knows of a parameter (or something similar) for
> 8.0.5 that allows you to set a maximum number of iterations on a loop,
> regardless of the logic in the loop.
>
> Basically, I have a developer that created a 5 line loop that had faulty
> logic (basically, while(true) loop;) and ran for about 6 hours before it
> could be shut down, sucking about 80% of the CPU in the process.

Put a counter in the loop. if counter = max then EXIT

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