[Coco] Microware C Compiler port

[Bob Devries]

Bill,


>From the Microware C Compiler manual:

quote:
An optional character "l" indicates that the following "d","x", or "o" is 
the specification of a long integer argument
/quote

Also, from the manual, CHAR is 1 byte, INT is 2 bytes, UNSIGNED is 2 bytes, 
LONG is 4 bytes, FLOAT is 4 bytes and DOUBLE is 8 bytes.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Barnes" <da3m0n_slay3r at yahoo.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 12:20 AM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Microware C Compiler port


Hmmm, I thought it was this way:   printf("long int: %l",longint);
I do know that using "%d" deals with an int though, never seen it referenced 
as "%ld"

As far as length.... compiler specific. only guarantees is long is not 
smaller than an int, and int is not shorter than a short. I forget the OS-9 
C (CoCo) lengths, and don't feel like chasing down my manual.



-Later!  -WB- -- BABIC Computer Consulting.


--- On Wed, 1/21/09, William Astle <lost at l-w.ca> wrote:


> From: William Astle <lost at l-w.ca>

> Subject: Re: [Coco] Microware C Compiler port

> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>

> Date: Wednesday, January 21, 2009, 7:37 PM

> John W. Linville wrote:

> > On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:47:38AM +1000, Bob Devries

>

> Correct me if I'm wrong, but how does this theory work:

>

> Assumption: long is twice as many bits as int and

> big-endian byte order,

> both of which should be valid here.

>

> Pretend we have a "long" value of 16. That would

> get onto the stack as

> the following string of bytes: 00, 00, 00, 10.

>

> Now printf() is looking for an integer so it only grabs 16

> bits from the

> stack which gets the bytes: 00 00

>

> Magically, our "long" value turns into a 0.

>

> The theory is that the format string being used is only

> cuing printf()

> to look for an int value but a long int is on the stack.

>

> I'm not overly familiar with the microware C compiler

> and the C library

> involved but usually "%ld" is used for long ints

> rather than "%D", is it

> not?

>

> -- 

> William Astle






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