Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 15:31:08 -0500 (EST)
From: Nathaniel Johnson <najohnso AT expert DOT cc DOT purdue DOT edu>
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Is this a bug with DJGPP? Pls Help.
In-Reply-To: <712e6q$c1i@ds2.acs.ucalgary.ca>
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Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

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
> 
>