weird C behavior

[Bernie Roehl]

In article <436 at umcp-cs.UUCP> chris at umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
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>The code contains the following [paraphrased]:
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>	printf("%d\n", 36864);
>
>On a 16 bit machine, this should read
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>	printf("%ld\n", 36864);
>

Both are wrong on a 16 bit machine, and both will produce garbage (though
probably different garbage).  What you want is

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

Note the 'L' suffix; this is how you tell C that you mean a Long constant.