How Not to Program in C++

192 Chapter 11

39 /************************************************

40 * sum -- Sum the sine of the numbers from 0 to *

41 * 0x3FFFFFFF. Actually we don't care *

42 * about the answer, all we're trying to *

43 * do is create some sort of compute *

44 * bound job so that the status_monitor *

45 * can be demonstrated. *

46 ************************************************/

47 static void sum(void) {

48 static double sum = 0; /* Sum so far */

49

50 for (counter = 0;

51 counter < 0x3FFFFFF;

52 ++counter)

53 {

54 sum += sin(double(counter));

55 }

56

57 printf("Total %f\n", sum);

58 exit (0);

59 }

60

61 int main() {

62 // Status of last system call

63 int status;

64

65 // I ...