On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 04:50:14PM +0100, JonT wrote:
> I'm trying to print out and UInt32
> The code below used to work fine...... but does not now!
Actually, in terms of temporality, it used to be broken...... but now
it works fine!
> StrPrintF(dateBuffer,"%lu", jtimeInSeconds);
[...]
> jtimeInSeconds = 3101474574
> but the value StrPrintF'd into my buffer ends up as "-1193492722"
[...]
> Ive even gone back to code that did work but thats broke,,,,,,,,
>
> Maybe Ive missed some exciting compiler flag....
>
> Or is this yet another fantastic codewarrior feature!
Not this time,,,,,,,,,!
It's a known bug in old ROMs. I think you'll find that StrPrintF
prints large numbers with %lu as negative on old versions of Palm OS,
but was fixed as of 3.5 or thereabouts.
John
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