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From: mcewan@uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU
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Subject: Re: weird C behavior
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Date: Thu, 27-Mar-86 13:25:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 27 13:25:00 1986
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Nf-From: uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU!mcewan    Mar 27 12:25:00 1986


>> 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.

K & R, page 180:

"A decimal constant whose value exceeds the largest signed machine integer
is taken to be long."

			Scott McEwan
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