Thread: Jumping into C++ Question - Getting EAX Registery value in my program

Hello,
I am having an issue with my program showing my eax registry value. I have been googling for 6 hours now and have not found the answer. Can someone help? Code is below. I know exactly where the value is being added and can even change it to 0, but that exits my loop. Should I be looking to change that value to something different. This is not homework just trying to learn C++. I found the error by debugging and pulling up the different debugging windows. Thank you in advance.

Code:

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int add ( int x, int y );
int sub ( int x, int y );
int multiply ( int x, int y );
int divide ( int x, int y );
int beerbottles ( int b );


int main ()
{
    int i, b, x, y, z;

    while ( i != 0 )
    {
        cout << "Choose an option below" << endl;
        cout << "1. Hear a song." << endl;
        cout << "2. Calculator." << endl;
        cout << "Option:";
        cin >> i;
        cout << endl;

        if ( i == 1 )
        {
            cout << "1) Add" << endl;
            cout << "2) Subtract" << endl;
            cout << "3) Multiply" << endl;
            cout << "4) Divide" << endl;
            cin >> z;

            if ( z == 1 )
            {
                cout << "1st number to add: ";
                cin >> x;
                cout << "2nd number to add: ";
                cin >> y;
                int result = add( x, y );
                cout << "Total is: " << result;
            }
            if ( z == 2 )
            {
                cout << "1st number to subtract: ";
                cin >> x;
                cout << "2nd number to subtract: ";
                cin >> y;
                int result = sub( x, y );
                cout << "Total is: " << result;
            }
            if ( z == 3 )
            {
                cout << "1st number to multiply: ";
                cin >> x;
                cout << "2nd number to multiply: ";
                cin >> y;
                int result = multiply( x, y );
                cout << "Total is: " << result;
            }
            if ( z == 4 )
            {
                cout << "1st number to divide: ";
                cin >> x;
                cout << "2nd number to divide: ";
                cin >> y;
                int result = divide( x, y );
                cout << "Total is: " << result;
            }
        }
        if ( i == 2 )
        {
                cout << "How many beer bottles are on the wall? ";
                cin >> b;
                cout << beerbottles( b );
        }
    }

}

int add ( int x, int y )
    {
        return x + y;
    }
int sub ( int x, int y )
    {
        return x - y;
    }
int multiply ( int x, int y )
    {
        return x * y;
    }
int divide ( int x, int y )
    {
        return x / y;
    }
int beerbottles( int b )
{
    while ( b > 0 )
    {
        cout << b << " bottles of beer on the wall,  " << b << " bottles of beer " << endl;
        --b;
        cout << "Take one down, pass it around, " << b << " bottles of beer on the wall." << endl;
        cout << endl;
    }
}

eax is a processor register that the compiler is using to do calculations with, and you normally only see it being used when looking at the machine language during debugging.

Here is what I am seeing. When I run the code it runs just fine. The inputs are backwards when choosing a song or calculator, but if you choose song and choose a number for the bottles of beer on the wall you will see the number pop up after line 73. That number is my eax registry number. So I know the problem is at line 73 but do not know what I am doing for it to grab that number. I suspect that it is from the function beerbottles and possibly my int b is grabbing the value but not sure how to fix it. By the way I am using codeblocks as my editor and minigw as my compiler.

vart - not sure what you mean seeing on line 15 I have my while loop. On line 15 I have "while ( i != 0 )", but if you notice I have i initialized right above there so not sure where you are going with this line of troubleshooting.

rcgldr - I see the number by just clicking on the exe file created by my compiler at the end of my program on line 73.

kmdv - not sure where you are going with assembly, sounds like high level stuff to me.

Remember people I put the title of my post as Jumping into C++, which is a beginners book to coding. This is the reason I am posting on this forum. I am trying to learn and I have hit a snag so any help would be greatly appreciated.

laserlight - did you run the program?

I have included a png file to show you what I am talking about seeing no one is understanding what I am asking. I think I need to do something in the beerbottles function with the variable but not sure what.

The random number is probably because your beerbottles function is specified as returning an int "int beerbottles (int b)", yet you did not do so. Consequently, the computer chose a random number to return as the return value of that function. The line cout << beerbottles(b) then prints that return value (randomly chosen as above).

tabstop - thank you. you are not clear in your answer but I got it to work because I understood what you said. You helped sir or maam.

I fixed my issue by changing my beerbottles function to a string and that solved it.