"Mike Wahler" <mk******@mkwahler.net> writes:
"Emmanuel Delahaye" <em***@YOURBRAnoos.fr> wrote in message
news:mn***********************@YOURBRAnoos.fr... Joriveek wrote on 29/08/05 : I want to store myvarz = 3000000000;
I have declared myvarz as unsigned long; still not taking.
I am using MSVC++ 6.0
Check your ULONG_MAX (in <limits.h>) It could be not big enough for the
value you want.
It is large enough. I suspect OP didn't tell us the
whole story.
He certainly didn't. The above is all the information the OP gave us,
except for the "Any help please urgent...." at the end of the article.
There's no reason to think he can't store the value 3000000000 in an
unsigned long, and no clue what he means by "still not taking".
If it's really urgent, presumably he'll be following this thread and
will jump in any moment with a clearer explanation of what he's asking
for. Until then, there's really no point in speculating.
I'm tempted to suggest that if somebody posts an unclear question, and
somebody else has posted a followup asking for clarification, we
should drop the thread. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any
good way to drop a thread.
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