On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 09:53:50AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [format recovered; Tim Kientzle wrote:] > > Jay Sern Liew wrote: > > > how do I find out the maximum (and minimum) value a long > > and int will hold > > > in C? (before it overflows or underflows) > > > > #include <limits.h> > > > > INT_MAX and INT_MIN are the max/min values for an int > > LONG_MAX and LONG_MIN are the max/min values for long. > > > > Also, see stdint.h, which is defined in C99. > > > > Also, buy a good C reference book. ;-) > > > > Tim Kientzle [..and Vijay Singh wrote:] > > Write a simple C program to ++ an int or long variable and see when it > overflows.
Why, after Tim actually quoted the exact header file to include and the exact constants to use? G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 You have, of course, just begun reading the sentence that you have just finished reading.
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