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Iterating Backwards in C

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The author explains the common mistakes when iterating backwards in C and presents the clean idiom `for(size_t i = count; i--; )`, which avoids signed-index and wrap-around pitfalls, especially as LLM-generated code repeats the buggy versions.

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