Beginning C question.

[Stephen B Coy]

In article <7703 at uudell.dell.com>, jrh at mustang.dell.com (James Howard) writes:
> main()
> {
>         short a=0x20df;
>         short b=0x3244;
>         int   c;
> 
> c = (a<<16) + b;
> printf("c = %x\n",c);
> 
> exit(0);
> }
> 
> I used "short" because they're 16 bits on this machine, and int's are 32.

On a 16 bit int system c must be a long and a must be cast to long
in the equation otherwise the bits will be shifted off into a black
hole.

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Stephen Coy
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