From: "Murray Rogers" <mwr21 AT cam DOT ac DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Unsigned Int Problem
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 14:36:00 +0100
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Unsigned short int should do the job.


Derek Chew <sdchew AT email DOT com> wrote in message
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> Hi there everyone.. I just recently shifted from using Borland Turbo C++
> to DJGPP and I besides the funny error messages that GCC gives, its been
> quite a good experience...
>
> most recently, I noticed that one of my old functions that I wrote using
> TC has been acting wierdly.. I did some further investigate a bit futher
> and found that this line of code executes differently in TC and GCC
>
> main()
> {
>  unsigned int data=1;
>  data=0-data;
>  printf("%u",data);
>  return;
> }
>
> on TC, I will get the desire result of 65535 as the 16-bit unsigned int
> will overflow into and display this value... but apparently, under
> DJGPP/GCC, an unsigned int is 32-bit and I get the unwanted value of
> 4294967295 ...
>
> is there a good work around to allow the code to work in both compilers?
>
> thanks a lot guys!
>