UCHAR_MIN & UCHAR_MAX

[Carramba]

hi!

how do I call UCHAR_MIN & UCHAR_MAX ?
printf("unsigned-char: [%c, %c]\n", UCHAR_MIN, UCHAR_MAX);
Iam getting error with %c? with one I should use? and why?

thax in advance

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[Emmanuel Delahaye]

Carramba wrote on 30/01/05 :

how do I call UCHAR_MIN & UCHAR_MAX ?
printf("unsigned-char: [%c, %c]\n", UCHAR_MIN, UCHAR_MAX);
Iam getting error with %c? with one I should use? and why?

What error ?

First of all, try with "%d" to see the values (in decimal).

BTW, I guess you included <limits.h>

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[Carramba]

yes,

the problem was there isn't UCHAR_MIN .... only MAX ...

thanx

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 16:56:57 +0100, Emmanuel Delahaye
<em***@YOURBRAnoos.fr> wrote:

Carramba wrote on 30/01/05 :

how do I call UCHAR_MIN & UCHAR_MAX ?
printf("unsigned-char: [%c, %c]\n", UCHAR_MIN, UCHAR_MAX);
Iam getting error with %c? with one I should use? and why?

What error ?

First of all, try with "%d" to see the values (in decimal).

BTW, I guess you included <limits.h>

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[S.Tobias]

Carramba <no****@privet.net> wrote:

how do I call UCHAR_MIN & UCHAR_MAX ? ^^^^^^^^^
What this? -------^
printf("unsigned-char: [%c, %c]\n", UCHAR_MIN, UCHAR_MAX);
Iam getting error with %c? with one I should use? and why?

What's the error message?

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[CBFalconer]

Carramba wrote:

how do I call UCHAR_MIN & UCHAR_MAX ?
printf("unsigned-char: [%c, %c]\n", UCHAR_MIN, UCHAR_MAX);
Iam getting error with %c? with one I should use? and why?

First you need to #include <limits.h>. Then you need to use %d,
since those macros describe the limits of the type, and those
limits are not necessarily printable. Third, there is no
UCHAR_MIN, it is zero, as for all unsigned types.

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[Emmanuel Delahaye]

Carramba wrote on 30/01/05 :

yes,

the problem was there isn't UCHAR_MIN .... only MAX ...

thanx

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 16:56:57 +0100, Emmanuel Delahaye <em***@YOURBRAnoos.fr>
wrote:

Carramba wrote on 30/01/05 :

how do I call UCHAR_MIN & UCHAR_MAX ?
printf("unsigned-char: [%c, %c]\n", UCHAR_MIN, UCHAR_MAX);
Iam getting error with %c? with one I should use? and why?

What error ?

First of all, try with "%d" to see the values (in decimal).

BTW, I guess you included <limits.h>

After brain shaking...

UCHAR_MIN doesn't exist. It's 0 by definition.

BTW, the correct formatter is "%u".

printf("unsigned-char: [%c, %c]\n", 0, UCHAR_MAX);

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[S.Tobias]

Emmanuel Delahaye <em***@yourbranoos.fr> wrote:

BTW, the correct formatter is "%u". printf("unsigned-char: [%c, %c]\n", 0, UCHAR_MAX);

Didn't you mean to write:
printf("unsigned-char: [%u, %u]\n", 0, UCHAR_MAX);
?

UCHAR_MAX constant is promoted to either singed or unsigned int.
Since the value is positive, either result must have the same
representation. The difference is only in the type. Is a cast
before the constants recommended or not in this case?

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[S.Tobias]

S.Tobias <si***@famous.bedbug.pals.invalid> wrote:

UCHAR_MAX constant is promoted to either singed or unsigned int.

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UCHAR_MAX _is_ either singed or unsigned int (depending on the result
of the promotion of unsigned char - cf. 5.2.4.2.1).

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[Emmanuel Delahaye]

S.Tobias wrote on 31/01/05 :

Emmanuel Delahaye <em***@yourbranoos.fr> wrote:

BTW, the correct formatter is "%u".

printf("unsigned-char: [%c, %c]\n", 0, UCHAR_MAX);

Didn't you mean to write:
printf("unsigned-char: [%u, %u]\n", 0, UCHAR_MAX);
?

Sure!

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[Peter Nilsson]

Emmanuel Delahaye wrote:

S.Tobias wrote on 31/01/05 :

Emmanuel Delahaye <em***@yourbranoos.fr> wrote:

BTW, the correct formatter is "%u".

printf("unsigned-char: [%c, %c]\n", 0, UCHAR_MAX);

Didn't you mean to write:
printf("unsigned-char: [%u, %u]\n", 0, UCHAR_MAX);
?

Sure!

%u expects an unsigned int, not an int. The wording of the
standard doesn't guarantee that %u will work in this case
(although that _was_ the intent of the committee.)

That said, it is arguable whether a hosted implementation
can be considered conforming if UCHAR_MAX promotes to
unsigned int, so I think that...

printf("unsigned-char: [%d..%d]\n", 0, UCHAR_MAX);

....is safer. If you're truly paranoid, then use...
printf("unsigned-char: [%u..%u]\n", 0u, 0u + UCHAR_MAX);

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