First C program
Frank Kolmann <[email protected]>
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Hi Barbara Thank you. Yes I am guilty, I fell into a C pitfall. Also Paul warns against this problem. However I am not sure how I should code this. I guess it should be #define I03 2 which sets up array index 2 to look up the Indicator area. Frank >On 2014-04-01 04:46, frank kolmann wrote: >I have coded my first C program. > >One thing I noticed is that you have a numeric constant starting with zero. > >#define I03 02 > >In C, when a numeric constant starts with zero, it's an octal constant (base 8). You're ok with 02 since it means 2 in both decimal and octal. > >But if was a constant like 023, it would be 19 in octal (2*8 + 3) > >Barbara Morris -- This is the Bare Metal Programming IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries) (C400-L) mailing list To post a message email: C400-L-Zwy7GipZuJhWk0Htik3J/[email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/c400-l or email: C400-L-request-Zwy7GipZuJhWk0Htik3J/[email protected] Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/c400-l.