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Bug: Nested "for x times loops" not working

Basically, next nested for x times loops don't work as you'd expect in decent for-loop coding, as if the increment variable is shared between the two.

Likely culprit: When the exterior loop loops once, the 'loop count' is set to whatever loop count is the first one, but said value is overwritten by for x times loop(s) within said for loop, either leading to a bodged forever loop or a loop 1 times loop as the exterior loop.

Java example:

//Java "loop forever" for loop example
for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
  for (int i = 0; i < 6; i++) {
    //The variable i is overwritten, reaches 6 and then the main loop is run again, and again, etc.
    do(x);
  }
}
//Java "loop for 1 times" for loop example
for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
  for (int i = 0; i < 12; i++) {
    //The variable I is overwritten, reaches 12 and then the main loop is skipped
    do(x);
  }
}

Hope the description and possible reason helps; I don't know very much C, but Java is a close-enough language for it to be fairly easily translatable into C.

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