for / while else doesn't make sense

[Random832]

On Thu, May 26, 2016, at 05:05, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>    31            24              16               8               0
>    +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
>    | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
>    +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
>     ^             ^               ^               ^

How does someone write the constant "0x8101010" and not realize that
something's deeply wrong with their logic? I hope however it was
implemented made it less obvious than that.