for cicle problem

[relinquished]

Hi, I'm using mikroc for the first time, I'm using a for loop to access bits of a variable.

thus it creates an infinite loop
void sct80(long dat){
char c;
for (c = 23; c >= 0 ; c--){
if ((dat >> c)& 0x01) {

so the cycle works but my code goes backwards
void sct80(long dat){
char c;
for (c = 0; c >= 23 ; c++){
if ((dat >> c)& 0x01) {

the problem is that if I use a positive increment the cycle works but I need the for loop to count down from 23 to 0, and if I do so the for loop creates an infinite loop.

[samolet4e]

With regards to the for loop, it seems OK to me. The for statement does not create an infinite loop. Check if the block of statements below is enclosed within brackets.

[oliverb]

You appear to be using "char" as the type for the counter. This is probably creating an unsigned char which would never go below zero because it would wrap round to 255, so the test ">= 0" would always return true.

You could try specifying "signed char", I believe that is a valid type. Then again if you are in a 32 bit environment then you should probably use "int" for counters?

[jovana.medakovic]

Hello,

@oliverb
Thank you, you are right.

In our help file, you can find a range of each of type which our compilers support.

Kind regards,
Jovana