weird C behavior

[Chris Torek]

In article <557 at utastro.UUCP> nather at utastro.UUCP (Ed Nather) writes:

>Here is a short C program which gives correct output according to K & R.
>[...]  Try it on *your* 16-bit computer.

The code contains the following [paraphrased]:

	printf("%d\n", 36864);

On a 16 bit machine, this should read

	printf("%ld\n", 36864);

One alternative is to change Ed's original program to read

	#define BIG ((int) 36864)

Too bad lint does not catch the printf() type bug.
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