From:	"Aleksey Kondratyev" <akondra AT mv DOT ru>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: A bug in djgpp?
Date:	Wed, 15 Apr 1998 23:21:43 +0400
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Tom Wilson wrote
>Hi People :I
>
>I'm a newbie C programmer using djgpp, and while mucking about i found
>something weird and i dont really understand it :)
>
>ok if i compile this peice of code..
>
>#include <stdio.h>
>int main()
>{
>        short b, a;
>        printf("Choose a value for a: ");
>        scanf("%i", &a);
>        printf("Choose a value for b: ");
>        scanf("%i", &b);
>        printf("A is equal to %i\n", a);
>        printf("B is equal to %i\n", b);
>        return 0;
>}
>
>
>i get the expected results... The program prints the value of A and B that


Try to use "%hi" instead of "%i" in the format string. 'short int' occupies
2 bytes in DJGPP but scanf treats your variables as 4 bytes integers.
Probably, it may cause unpredictable consequences. This problem will
appear using any compiler where short int and int are of different size.

Regards, Aleksey

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Aleksey Kondratyev
Ph.D. student of Ulyanovsk state University
http://www.mv.ru/~akondra
e-mail:akondra AT mmf DOT univ DOT simbirsk DOT su

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