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From: broehl@watdcsu.UUCP (Bernie Roehl)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c,net.micro,net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: weird C behavior
Message-ID: <2194@watdcsu.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 25-Mar-86 13:47:21 EST
Article-I.D.: watdcsu.2194
Posted: Tue Mar 25 13:47:21 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 26-Mar-86 03:11:22 EST
References: <557@utastro.UUCP> <436@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: broehl@watdcsu.UUCP (Bernie Roehl)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Keywords: strange, opaque, odd
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In article <436@umcp-cs.UUCP> chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>
>The code contains the following [paraphrased]:
>
>	printf("%d\n", 36864);
>
>On a 16 bit machine, this should read
>
>	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.