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Re: printf and cout

Subject: Re: printf and cout
From: Richard Heathfield
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:51:48 +0000
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c

laikon said:

> Hello, everyone:
> 
> this is about overflow in C and C++.

The behaviour of a C program on overflow is undefined.

> int c = 400;
> printf("%c", c);
> 
> it print ? on screen,

Not necessarily. C doesn't guarantee you a screen, and it says very little 
about the character set supplied by your implementation.

> and ascii of '?' is 63.

This is irrelevant, I think. If by some chance you'd seen the character 
with code point 144 (which is, of course, *not* an ASCII character), I'd 
have been able to explain it in concrete terms. I am a little puzzled by 
the 63, actually. Try dumping the character to a file and examining a hex 
dump thereof.

> but
> cout << int(char(400));
> 
> it print -112 on screen.

You might want to ask that in comp.lang.c++

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