a basic one

[saurav_sarkar]

i have a very basic question.
following is the code

# include<stdio.h>
# include<conio.h>
void main()
{
int i=012;
int j=024;
int k=036;

printf("%d  %d  %d ",i,j,k);
getch();
}

>

the output is 10,20,30..........
why is it not 12,24,36?

[Stoned_Coder]

012 is not 12 decimal its 12 octal. the 0 means treat this as octal similarly as 0x means treat this as hex. same for 024 and 036. All octal numbers(base 8)

[quzah]

You're lucky it works at all. It doesn't have to you know, because main is not a void function. That's undefined.

Quzah.