amazing result!

[ekin]

I really do not understand.look at the code.

printf("%d,%d,%d\n");
 

there is only a printf in main.but how can this produce a reslut:
2367460,1243068,2147332096

thanks in advance.

[weaknessforcats]

The three %d's tell printf there are three ints to process as arguments. Unfortunately, the ints were never created so printf displays the contents of memory where printf thinks the ints should be. Result: Garbage.

[JosAH]

I really do not understand.look at the code.

printf("%d,%d,%d\n");
 

there is only a printf in main.but how can this produce a reslut:
2367460,1243068,2147332096

thanks in advance.

That's serendipity; daemons might fly out of your nose instead when you run
that little creep.

kind regards,

Jos

[Silent1Mezzo]

That's serendipity; daemons might fly out of your nose instead when you run
that little creep.

kind regards,

Jos

Haha...took me a while to realize the title was result :P ....I wasn't really sure what a reslut was...

[ekin]

Thanks friends!

Quote:
the ints were never created so printf displays the contents of memory where printf thinks the ints should be. Result: Garbage

But, where the momory exactly is that should be print?Is there any way i could find ?

[weaknessforcats]

The ints are passed into printf() as arguments. That means printf() has a copy of the int.

You do one of two ways:

printf("%d%d%d", 3,4,5);
 

Here the 3,4,5 are copied as arguments. printf() just look in memory (the stack frame) for the three ints. There it will find the copies of the 3, 4 and 5.

Or you could:

int a = 3;
int b = 4;
int c = 5;
printf("%d%d%d", a,b,c);
 

In this case, the ints (a b c) have been copied to the printf() stack frame so this case is just like the previous one. Here are the copies of a,b and c.

What happens is the printf() function has this prototype:

size_t printf(const char*, ...);
 

The ellipsis argument (...) means and unspecified number of arguments. What printf() does is go through the first argument looking for % signs. The number of % signs tells printf() how many arguments are represented by the second argument (the ...). The code after each % (like %d) tells print() how big that argument is. With this information, printf() makes a calculation of the address where the argument should be in the stack frame. Then it just displays what is there.

Of course, if you never provided the second argument, the calculation arrives at some location in memory and you are just shown the contents of that memory.

You can read up on the vararg macros if you want to. These are the ones that do that calculating of memory addresses for the ellipsis argument.

[ekin]

thanks weaknessforcats! It is very clear. I find a another interesting story.the result of the third %d is awalys changing! different from the first and second %d. very funny.right?is there any relation between the stack?

[ekin]

maybe there is something with complier.I tried in tc.But it produced the same result.