Unsigned Int Range

[Thanigaivel]

Hi All,

i have assigned some large positive int value (32 bit length) X to unsigned int variable and due to the range constraints that variable stores the same positive value X in negative representation say Y (where Y<0).

Now my question is If Y = -1018059492 what would be the value of X? And how to do this converision?

Thanks in advance!

[Banfa]

Use pointers, you can pointer and unsigned int pointer at an in variable and thus access the data there with no conversion (of course this may not be a valid thing to do for all variable types but it works for and like sized integer type)

int y = -2;
unsigned int *x = (unsigned int *)&y;

printf("%d is equivilent to %u\n", y, *x);


I've leave you to run it over your specific number.