64 bits values or 32 bits

From:
jim hyden <netuser501@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Thu, 30 Jun 2011 14:17:17 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<9087354f-58c5-480d-b34a-3543ca5bb93f@l9g2000yqk.googlegroups.com>
Hi,

For the 2 first questions (as comments in the code), the code below is
"half- working" on a 64 bits windows 7 laptop running Windev C++. Is
Windev running in 32 bits mode by default?

Without the if statement in this loop it returns 1 or
-4 294 967 295.

In fact, it is now returning 1 for question 2 which is not what I
expect.

With the if statement, the code returns
2 147 483 648 for 32 loops in question 1 and question 2 when it's 33
loops ?

Something wrong with the algorithm in the code???

    while (var_integer > 0)
    {
        cout << "\n" << nb << "\tvar_int : " << var_integer ;
        var_integer *= 2 ;
        nb++ ;
        if (var_integer > 0)
            var_integer2 = var_integer ;
    }

/* 1- Compute a n*2 value for 64 iterations */
/* 2- Maximum integer variable iterations for n*2 */
/* 3- Computer the number of iteration needed to reach the value in
question 1 */
int main()
try
{
        long double var_long_double = 1 ;
        long double var_long_double2 = 1 ;
        unsigned int var_integer = 1 ;
        unsigned int var_integer2 = 1 ;
        int i = 1 ;
        int nb = 1 ;
        // QUESTION 1
        while (i < 64)
        {
                var_long_double *= 2 ;
                i++ ;
        }
        cout << "\n1- Value for 64 iteration : " << var_long_double ;
        //QUESTION 2
        while (var_integer > 0)
        {
                cout << "\n" << nb << "\tvar_int : " << var_integer ;
                var_integer *= 2 ;
                nb++ ;
                if (var_integer > 0)
                        var_integer2 = var_integer ;
        }
        cout << "\n\n2- Number as integer variable for " << nb << "
incrementations : " << var_integer2 ;
        // QUESTION 3
        i = 1 ;
        while (var_long_double >= 0)
        {
                var_long_double /= 2 ;
                if (var_long_double >= 0)
                        var_long_double2 = var_long_double ;
                else
                        break ;
                i++ ;
        }
        cout << "\n3-Number of maximum iteration for i as int " << i
<<
"\n" ;
        cout << "\n\n" ;
        system("pause") ;
        return 0 ;
}

catch (runtime_error e)
{
        cout << e.what() << '\n' ;
        keep_window_open("~") ;
}

catch(...)
{
        cout << "Exiting\n" ;
        keep_window_open("~") ;
}

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