• "Imran Haider" <absolute1008 hotmail.com> Oct 02 2001
• "Walter" <walter digitalmars.com> Oct 04 2001

"Imran Haider" <absolute1008 hotmail.com> writes:

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'unsigned long' variables don't work in 16-bit mode. They only work with =
32-bit mode. In 16-bit mode, I think assigning a long variable more than =
16-bits (64k) is broken into high-word and low-word. The low-word is =
used in the variable and the high-word is deleted.

unsigned long in 16-bit mode takes 2 bytes of RAM when it should be =
taking 4 bytes. So in another words:

sizeof(unsigned long)  =3D=3D sizeof(unsigned short)

"Walter" <walter digitalmars.com> writes:

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The following program prints "4" as expected when compiled with -ms or =
-ml:

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#include <stdio.h>

void main()
{
 printf("%d\n", sizeof(unsigned long));
}
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    Imran Haider wrote in message <9piqdp$247e$1 digitaldaemon.com>...
    'unsigned long' variables don't work in 16-bit mode. They only work =
with 32-bit mode. In 16-bit mode, I think assigning a long variable more =
than 16-bits (64k) is broken into high-word and low-word. The low-word =
is used in the variable and the high-word is deleted.
   =20
    unsigned long in 16-bit mode takes 2 bytes of RAM when it should be =
taking 4 bytes. So in another words:
   =20
    sizeof(unsigned long)  =3D=3D sizeof(unsigned short)