Why does this Java for loop terminate although it is supposed to loop infinitely?

Question

The following loop is supposed to be looping endlessly, or so I think.

int y=0;
for(int x=1; x>0; x++)
{
    y=y+x;
}

However, the loop does terminate, and I do not know why.

Answer 1

Eventually x will be greater than Integer.MAX_VALUE and then it will overflow to negative Here is a quick test to show you what I mean

int val = 1000000;

for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
     val = val * val;
     if (val < 0) {
         System.out.println(val);
     }
}