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Re: [TCLUG:10678] Simple C Question
Thank you everyone, I knew I was just missing something stupid...
Wonderful how you can over-think a problem, isn't it?
The %d idea works perfectly....
Brian
>>> rgoldber@d.umn.edu 12/01/99 10:51AM >>>
Hmm, you're casting ints to addresses, I'm suprised it doesn't
segfault.
Use %d and get rid of the cast. Or, if you really want these ints to
be
strings, look at sprintf()
-ryan be kind.
On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Brian Ackermann wrote:
> Ok, simple question for all you C programmers out there...
>
> Here's the line of code in question...
>
> printf("%s\n", (char *)(FO_Offset+=16));
>
> Assuming FO_Offset=0 at start and this code runs in a loop we should
> see:
>
> 16
> 32
> 48
> 64
> 80
> 96
>
> and so on...
>
> I'm assuming that (FO_Offset+=16) evaluates to an integer value,
say,
> 16, in
> the first instance,
> and then casting it to a (char *) will let the printf() do what it
> does.
>
> The program compiles without errors or warnings, but the text is
just
> garbage...
>
> What am I missing?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Brian J. Ackermann
>
>
>
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