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- From: muzaffar@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Usman Muzaffar)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: A real basic problem: long integers or compiler problem?
- Date: 18 Apr 1996 09:00:55 GMT
- Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston IL
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- In article <4l3mom$f26@newsbf02.news.aol.com>,
- The Oder <theoder@aol.com> wrote:
- >I'm in the process of relearning C and have been doing some beginning
- >programs on my PC. I have two compilers (Borland C++ and Power C). My
- >problem is that when I run a program using "long" integers (i.e. declare a
- >variable as "long"), it locks up immediately and I have to reboot. This
- >has happened with both compilers and with two different really basic
- >programs (i.e. just trying to do a loop that will compute the first 10
- >powers of 2, and another one that simply just tries to find the largest
- >positive long value on my computer--> I can find the largest positive int
- >value, but when I convert it to long, it locks up)
- >
- >Is this a problem I have with BOTH (?!?!) compilers, is it my computer
- >(486-DX2, 8 megs RAM) or settings, or is it just something I haven't
- >learned yet about long integers? One of these programs I copied directly
- >from one of TWO books I'm using and it just locks up!
- >
- >Thanks.
-
- It makes no sense to describe this program and not post it.
- Just declaring a variable long certainly shouldn't crash your system.
- Give us the code and someone might be able to help.
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