breaking big-number FOR /L with GOTO does not work?

[npocmaka_]

Any idea why this happens?

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@echo off

for /l %%a in (1;1;10000) do (

   goto :break_for1
   
)
:break_for1
echo this was fast


for /l %%a in (1;1;2147483) do (

   goto :break_for2
   
)
:break_for2
echo this was slow


for /l %%a in (1;1;2147483647) do (

   goto :break_for3
   
)
:break_for3
echo this never ends

I've take a glance on this thread -> viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3758 but nothing like that is mentioned there.

(This is tested on Win 8x64 . May be it's worth to test a big text file processing with FOR /F too ?)

[Aacini]

This problem was extensively discussed at this thread, and the solution I like most is here.

Antonio