Date:	Tue, 10 Feb 1998 21:33:26 -0800 (PST)
Message-Id:	<199802110533.VAA05979@adit.ap.net>
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To:	"Eric" <ericfingerhut AT mindspring DOT com>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
From:	Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net>
Subject:	Re: unable to assign or initialize variables - HELP

At 12:01  2/10/1998 -0500, Eric wrote:
>The following line:
>    scanf("%d-%d-%d-%c", &beg_X, &end_Y, &wColor, &ch);
>
>will NOT assign a value to the first variable (&beg_X) and it remains at
>zero. BUT IF I FLIP the order of the first two variable (ie,
>scanf("%d-%d-%d-%c", &end_Y, &beg_X, &wColor, &ch);), VALUES ARE ASSIGNED!
>
>In a similar vein, the following line:
>    WORD left = 8, top = 10, right = 50, bottom = 20, type;
>
>will properly initialize evry requested variable of type word EXCEPT FOR THE
>last one (bottom = 20). I had to reassign the value later in the code.
>
>I'm using RHIDE on a Windows 95 machine. Any help much appreciated.
Please send a complete example where this doesn't work. It's hard to find a
bug out of context, if it is indeed a bug. For the `scanf' example, say
exactly what the input was.
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Please don't post binary files to this newsgroup, especially when they have
nothing to do with the topic at hand.

Nate Eldredge
eldredge AT ap DOT net

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