me lamer need help- fprintf

**staticalloc** · 09-22-2004

Hi everyone

well I have a new problem that makes me go crazy.

let me explain this code

enter n, steps x1

example:
n=6 ; x1=1.25 ---->1.25 2.5 3.75 5 6.25 7.5
calculate yi= xi^2 + 3xi +3
and fprintf to test.dat.

Then use the data to draw with gnuplot on screen, but thats another story.

Code:

#include<stdio.h>
#include<stdlib.h>


int main (void)
{

   double *y, *x, xi, x1;
   int i,n;
   FILE *fp;
   printf(" n-->"); scanf("%f",&n);
   printf("x1-->"); scanf("%f", &x1);
   y=   malloc( n*sizeof(double) );
   x=   malloc( n*sizeof(double) );
   fp=fopen("test.dat", "w");
   xi=x1;
   for (i=0; i<n; i++)
   {
	   y[i]= xi*xi - 3*xi +3;
	   x[i]= xi;
	   xi= xi+x1;
	   fprintf(fp,"%f  %f\n",y[i], x[i]);
	   fflush(fp);

   }

   fclose(fp);
   free(y);
   free(x);
   return 0;
}

result endless loop, huge growing .dat file 14Meg
and this
-1.#QNAN0 -1.#QNAN0
-1.#QNAN0 -1.#QNAN0
-1.#QNAN0 -1.#QNAN0
-1.#QNAN0 -1.#QNAN0
-1.#QNAN0 -1.#QNAN0
-1.#QNAN0 -1.#QNAN0
-1.#QNAN0 -1.#QNAN0
-1.#QNAN0 -1.#QNAN0
.
.

**MrWizard** · 09-22-2004

Here are the offending lines:

printf(" n-->"); scanf("%f",&n);
printf("x1-->"); scanf("%f", &x1);

In the first scanf the variable 'n' is of type integer but you try and read it as a floating-point number. You need %d or %i instead of %f. In the second x1 is a double floating-point. You try to read it with a single floating-point specifier. You need %lf for long float.

**Salem** · 09-22-2004

> printf(" n-->"); scanf("%f",&n);
> printf("x1-->"); scanf("%f", &x1);
Get a compiler which can diagnose scanf abuse
First one should be %d, since n is an integer
Second one should be %lf, because x1 is a double
Both values will be junk in your code.

Also, since you calculate and use x[i] and y[i] in the same loop iteration, there is no actual need to store these values in an array.

**staticalloc** · 09-22-2004

silly me. THX!!!!!

well I use lcc win32, and it didn´t give a warning ar an error.

Any suggestion?

**Salem** · 09-22-2004

No idea - read the manual page for whatever warnings it has, and turn them all on.

gcc for example has -Wall which checks a whole bunch of stuff

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