Thread: Type Casting Question

  1. 08-10-2011 #31
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    Quote Originally Posted by quzah View Post
    What pattern? There is no pattern here. Just you sticking bytes into an array.

    Read: Integer overflow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Your cast doesn't matter at all there. For that matter, it isn't even going to matter when you display it, because if you are using say %x + printf, it is effectively typecasting to an unsigned int anyway!


    Quzah.
    Are you saying that foo won't be 0x11, 0xff, 0xaa or 0x55? and the pattern I want it to get is 0b00010001, 0b11111111, 0b10101010 or 0b01010101. I believe this has no much to do with overflow.
  2. 08-10-2011 #32
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    I am done talking to you about this since you do not follow the forum guidlines. Editing the original post to take out the question is extremely rude and counter productive to what this board does. You just invalidated all the work people volunteered their time to help you with.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AndrewHunter View Post
    I am done talking to you about this since you do not follow the forum guidlines. Editing the original post to take out the question is extremely rude and counter productive to what this board does. You just invalidated all the work people volunteered their time to help you with.



    EDIT: Someone should lock this thread
    I thank the REAL help. the rest? I feel what i did was propitiate. don't like it? report me or band me if you like.

    I'm rude? some of you are not much better either. and I think i 'm done with you too. jerk!
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    Quote Originally Posted by firebird View Post
    report me or band me if you like.
    Done...

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    I've restored the original post.
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