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Jesus and his HEX Number Problem {Rob??}

• Posted by Hawke <mdeland at NWINFO.NET> Jul 03, 1998
• 661 views

after reading jesus' last post about hexadecimal constants,
i thought he might be using %f in printf and i also
wondered what would happen if instead of using 'constant'
that he defined his constants as 'integers' and assigned
them values and so i whipped up the following:
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constant testnum = #FFFFFFFF
integer testnum2
testnum2 = #FFFFFFFF
printf(1, "%d\n",testnum)
printf(1, "%d\n",testnum2)
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here is the output:
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C:\blah>ex test
test.ex:3
type_check failure, testnum2 is 4.29497e+009
--> see ex.err
C:\blah>type ex.err
test.ex:3
type_check failure, testnum2 is 4.29497e+009
Global & Local Variables
 test.ex:
    testnum2 = 4.29497e+009
-------------------------------

ummmmm hello? ummmm testnum2 is *declared*
to be *integer*.... are Jesus and I both
screwed up? or... well i don't wanna think
about the or...
anyone?

<Stumped>Hawke'</Stumped>