Hello. I'm encountering some errors in my code. Please help.
Code:void binary(int number) { int i, count; for(count = 0; number > 0; count++) { number /= 2; } int remainder[count]; for(i = 0; i < count; i++) { remainder[i] = number % 2; printf("%d\t", remainder); number /= 2; printf("%d\t", number); printf("%d\n\n", i); } for(i = count; i >= 0; i--) printf("%d", remainder[1]); }
Errors:
1. expected constant expression
2. cannot allocate an array of constant size 0
3. 'remainder' : unknown size
The 1989 C standard did not support variable size arrays (a-la "int remainder [count];" in your code). The 1999 C standard did.
This means, depending on age of your C compiler, that your code is invalid.
Either update your compiler, or look up use of malloc() to dynamically allocate memory, and free() to release it.
But I'm using Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition.
It typically takes up to ten years after a standard is released before you can be confident that new compilers implement it reasonably completely.
Visual Studio only partly implemented features of of the 1999 C standard until at least 2008. 2005 was before 2008, so Visual Studio 2005 editions would also have only had partial support for C99.
hope this helps..Code:void binary(int number) { int i, count, temp = number; for(count = 0; number > 0; count++) { number /= 2; } number =temp; // try saving the input.. else you would have lost it in the first loop. int * remainder = calloc(count, sizeof(int)); //to get around your compiler //incompatibility. should use free though as stated. for(i = 0; i < count; i++) { remainder[i] = number % 2; printf("%d\t",remainder[i]); number /= 2; printf("%d\t", number); printf("%d\n\n", i); } for(i = count - 1; i >= 0; i--) // introduce a -1 here prints an extra zero.. printf("%d", remainder[i]); }
Nitin
