Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/10/26/15:28:46
try using long instead of int
On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Tim wrote:
> On 26 Oct 1998, Martin Stromberg wrote:
>
> > Tim (tssymanc AT ucalgary DOT ca) wrote:
> > : I2luY2x1ZGUgPGZzdHJlYW0uaD4NDQojaW5jbHVkZSA8aW9zdHJlYW0uaD4N
> > : DQoNDQppbnQgbWFpbigpew0NCg0NCiAgICAgICAgY2hhciB0ZXh0WzI2XTsN
> >
> > If you want feedback, post something readable.
> >
> > Right,
> >
> > MartinS
>
> I don't know what happened, I can read both my post and attachment
> perfectly... Anyhow I'll try this again. My problem is with the following
> code, when I set number = 996546 the thing runs golden, but when number =
> 888888, the thing screws up, it reads back in the wrong number (It reads
> back in something like -32000). I've tested the same code with CC and g++
> and it worked fine with both. Anybody know why DJGPP is giving me the
> grief? Did I do something wrong? Did I break some convention that I don't
> know about?
>
> --------------8<------------------------------------8<-------------------------------
>
> #include <fstream.h>
> #include <iostream.h>
>
> int main(){
>
> char text[26];
> int number;
>
> for(int x = 0; x < 25; x++)
> text[x] = (x % 10) + '0';
> text[25] = '\0';
>
> number = 888888;
>
> cout << "Before going through the file : " << endl;
> cout << text << endl;
> cout << number << endl;
>
> fstream file;
>
> file.open("data", ios::out);
> file.write(text, sizeof(text));
> file.write((char *) &number, sizeof(number));
> file.close();
>
> text[0] = 'N'; // TO SHOW IF THE STUFF IS ACTUALLY GETTING READ
> text[1] = 'o'; //
> text[2] = 'p'; //
> text[3] = 'e'; //
> text[4] = '!'; //
> text[5] = '\0'; //
> number = 0; //
>
> file.open("data", ios::in);
> file.read(text, sizeof(text));
> file.read((char *) &number, sizeof(int));
> file.close();
>
> cout << "After going through the file : " << endl;
> cout << text << endl;
> cout << number << endl;
>
> return(0);
> }
>
>
> -------->8---------------------------------------->8----------------------------------
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> -Tim
>
>
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