[wplug] C code problem

[Matthew Danish]

On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 05:22:36PM -0400, Henry Umansky wrote:
> I've tried long too and it still does the same thing, I think it has 
> something to do with the output buffering. Has anyone tried to run it?? 
> For the most part the values are the same, but every now and then the first 
> value is 100,000 more than the second.  Another thing I noticed is that it 
> always happens on the same numbers.

Well, it does seem that your problem in particular was due to buffering.
However, on Linux systems the ``int'' type is the same size as the
``long'' type (32 bits), and both are too small to hold 100 billion.
GCC gave me a warning about this (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002).  I
wasn't quite sure what your problem was, so I just noted this as being
possibly-undefined behavior.

Anyway, if you want fancier output options than \r, you should look into
using ncurses.

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