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C++, Integer and Long integer Literals, Adding L to the end of a Literal

Pourang	20 Jan, 2008 - 12:11 PM Post #1
New D.I.C Head Joined: 30 Sep, 2007 Posts: 9 My Contributions	Hi. Adding a L to the end of a literal like 32 couse : The literal use 4 bytes. ( like a Long integer ). But i see that no matter there is a L or not, whenever i use the sizeof(), this is the variable defination which decides how many bytes this variable can save and there is no information indicating that number 32 using more bytes than usual. CODE short int number = 3L; cout << sizeof(number); i can't figure it out. 2 bytes still. should'nt this make the number to save 32 as an long integer? Thanks
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NickDMax	RE: C++, Integer And Long Integer Literals 20 Jan, 2008 - 12:31 PM Post #2
2B\|\|!2B Joined: 18 Feb, 2007 Posts: 2,864 Thanked: 53 times Dream Kudos: 550 My Contributions	The data type of the variable 'number' is still 'short int' so the compiler will convert the 'long int' value (32L) into the 'short int'. if you want it to be a long you need to put the value into a variable with a long int data type.
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Pourang	RE: C++, Integer And Long Integer Literals 20 Jan, 2008 - 01:01 PM Post #3
New D.I.C Head Joined: 30 Sep, 2007 Posts: 9 My Contributions	QUOTE(NickDMax @ 20 Jan, 2008 - 01:31 PM) The data type of the variable 'number' is still 'short int' so the compiler will convert the 'long int' value (32L) into the 'short int'. if you want it to be a long you need to put the value into a variable with a long int data type. The thing is if i do so, so in which cases i need to add a L anyway? From " Starting out with c++" : If you are in a situation where you have an integer literal, nut you need it to be stored in memory as an long integer... . But this is the same, useless. or i'm wrong? :-)
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NickDMax	RE: C++, Integer And Long Integer Literals 20 Jan, 2008 - 02:07 PM Post #4
2B\|\|!2B Joined: 18 Feb, 2007 Posts: 2,864 Thanked: 53 times Dream Kudos: 550 My Contributions	Generally speaking you don't need to add the "L" at the end of an integer. The problem is if you have a BIG number that is outside of the bounds of an int. So 65536 will not fit into a signed short int (2 bytes) so the compiler will want to see this as 65536L. CODE //unsigned short int Value = 65536; //Error! 65536 is too big unsigned long int Value = 65536L;
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Pourang	RE: C++, Integer And Long Integer Literals 21 Jan, 2008 - 02:28 AM Post #5
New D.I.C Head Joined: 30 Sep, 2007 Posts: 9 My Contributions	QUOTE(NickDMax @ 20 Jan, 2008 - 03:07 PM) Generally speaking you don't need to add the "L" at the end of an integer. The problem is if you have a BIG number that is outside of the bounds of an int. So 65536 will not fit into a signed short int (2 bytes) so the compiler will want to see this as 65536L. CODE //unsigned short int Value = 65536; //Error! 65536 is too big unsigned long int Value = 65536L; Thanks
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born2c0de	RE: C++, Integer And Long Integer Literals 23 Jan, 2008 - 05:47 AM Post #6
printf("I'm a %XR",195936478); Joined: 26 Nov, 2004 Posts: 4,026 Thanked: 38 times Dream Kudos: 2800 Expert In: 80x86 Assembly, C/C++, VB6, VB.NET, C#, J2SE, Win32 API, Reversing My Contributions	This also depends on the type of computer (and even compiler) you are using. The size of an integer is 2 bytes on a 16-bit machine, 4 bytes for 32-bit and 8 bytes for 64-bit systems.
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